OFAC Sanctions Tracker: US Treasury Designations
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July 2026
Trade Policy
US Treasury and OFAC sanctions designations and enforcement actions confirmed each month, including new entity designations, sanctions evasion charges, blocked property actions, and corporate penalty settlements. Each record includes the designated entity, sanction type, stated reason, announcement date, and announcing authority. The May 2026 edition covers drug cartel designations, Iran sanctions evasion networks, Hamas-linked financial networks, cryptocurrency enforcement actions, and corporate OFAC settlements – extracted from 4,940 web sources.
US Treasury or OFAC sanctions designation or sanctions evasion enforcement action against individual entity or country
Compliance officers at banks, financial institutions, and crypto exchanges use it to supplement OFAC SDN list screening with context on newly designated entities. Legal teams advising on sanctions risk track enforcement patterns and penalty benchmarks through it. Geopolitical risk analysts monitor the scope and targeting of US sanctions programs. RegTech and financial crime compliance teams use it as a structured feed for alert systems.
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<table class="catchall-table"><thead><tr><th style="min-width:40px">#</th><th style="min-width:280px">Event</th><th style="min-width:160px">Action Type</th><th style="min-width:160px">Sanctions Program</th><th style="min-width:160px">Target Country</th><th style="min-width:160px">Sanctioned Entity</th><th style="min-width:160px">Action Date</th><th style="min-width:160px">Penalty Currency</th><th style="min-width:160px">Sanctioning Authority</th><th style="min-width:160px">Penalty Amount</th><th style="min-width:160px">Reason</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:40px">1</td><td style="min-width:280px">Senators urge Treasury to sanction China's illegal fishing support vessels</td><td style="min-width:160px">Sanctions Designation</td><td style="min-width:160px">E.O. 13818</td><td style="min-width:160px">China</td><td style="min-width:160px">vessels that support China's distant water fishing fleet</td><td style="min-width:160px">2026-07-24</td><td style="min-width:160px">USD</td><td style="min-width:160px">OFAC</td><td style="min-width:160px">0</td><td style="min-width:160px">Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, ecocide, and gross human rights abuses including forced labor.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">2</td><td style="min-width:280px">US widens Mexican cartel crackdown to tequila makers, baby shoe company</td><td style="min-width:160px">Sanctions Designation</td><td style="min-width:160px">Mexican cartel crackdown</td><td style="min-width:160px">Mexico</td><td style="min-width:160px">Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)</td><td style="min-width:160px">2026-07-25</td><td style="min-width:160px">USD</td><td style="min-width:160px">OFAC</td><td style="min-width:160px">0</td><td style="min-width:160px">Drug trafficking, money laundering, fuel theft, and financing criminal enterprises by the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">3</td><td style="min-width:280px">US Treasury Sanctions Russian Individuals and Company for Terrorism Links</td><td style="min-width:160px">Sanctions Designation</td><td style="min-width:160px">Counter-Terrorism Sanctions</td><td style="min-width:160px">Russia, Iran</td><td style="min-width:160px">Vadim Druzhbin, Maria Selina, Avratek</td><td style="min-width:160px">2026-07-15</td><td style="min-width:160px">USD</td><td style="min-width:160px">OFAC</td><td style="min-width:160px">0</td><td style="min-width:160px">combating terrorism, alleged connection with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">4</td><td style="min-width:280px">US Sanctions First VPN and Individuals for Ransomware Attacks</td><td style="min-width:160px">Sanctions Designation</td><td style="min-width:160px">Cyber-related Sanctions Program</td><td style="min-width:160px">United States</td><td style="min-width:160px">First VPN Service</td><td style="min-width:160px">2026-07-14</td><td style="min-width:160px">USD</td><td style="min-width:160px">OFAC</td><td style="min-width:160px">2,000,000,000</td><td style="min-width:160px">Enabling ransomware attacks against U.S. organizations and providing tools for malware evasion.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">5</td><td style="min-width:280px">Gold trader Reza Zarrab sentenced in Iran sanctions evasion case</td><td style="min-width:160px">Sanctions Evasion Enforcement</td><td style="min-width:160px">Iran sanctions</td><td style="min-width:160px">Iran</td><td style="min-width:160px">Reza Zarrab</td><td style="min-width:160px">2026-07-14</td><td style="min-width:160px">USD</td><td style="min-width:160px">Other</td><td style="min-width:160px">376,000</td><td style="min-width:160px">evading U.S. sanctions on Iran by trading its oil for gold</td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3>How does this differ from the official OFAC SDN list?</h3><p>The OFAC SDN list is a current snapshot of all designated entities. This tracker is an event-level log of each new designation or enforcement action, enriched with stated reason, sanction type, and news context – making it easier to understand why entities were designated and what enforcement trend each action represents.</p><h3>Are corporate OFAC settlements included alongside individual and entity designations?</h3><p>Yes. Penalty settlements with financial institutions and other companies are included alongside SDN designations and non-SDN program actions.</p><h3>Can I access this via the CatchAll API for automated screening workflows?</h3><p>Yes. The underlying sanctions event data is available through the CatchAll web search API. Contact the team for API access and integration support.</p><h3>What is the refresh rate of this dataset?</h3><p>We rerun this dataset once a month. You can create your own dataset that updates as frequently as every one hour on <a href="https://platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall">platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall</a></p>