OFAC Sanctions Tracker: US Treasury Designations
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May 2026
Security & Stability
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 April 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 in May 2026
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:180px">Designated Entity</th><th style="min-width:160px">Sanction Type</th><th style="min-width:280px">Reason</th><th style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap">Date</th><th style="min-width:160px">Announcing Authority</th><th style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap">Source</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:40px">1</td><td>Taliban</td><td>Sanctions Designation</td><td>Codifying child marriage, banning education, sheltering terrorists</td><td>2026-05-01</td><td>US Treasury / OFAC</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/25052026-taliban-under-europes-spotlight-oped" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.eurasiareview.com</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">2</td><td>Kinahan Organized Crime Group</td><td>Sanctions Designation</td><td>Narcotics trafficking and international money laundering</td><td>2026-05-04</td><td>US Treasury</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.newstrail.com/target-on-their-backs-the-15-million-u-s-bounty-shaking-the-kinahan-cartel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.newstrail.com</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">3</td><td>Shipping companies (Iran corridor)</td><td>Sanctions Evasion Enforcement</td><td>Paying Iran to pass through Strait of Hormuz, depriving Tehran of oil revenue</td><td>2026-05-02</td><td>US Treasury</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/06/us-iran-war-peace-deal-memorandum-nuclear-enrichment-moratorium-strait-hormuz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">foreignpolicy.com</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">4</td><td>Five Chinese oil refiners</td><td>Sanctions Evasion Enforcement</td><td>Purchasing Iranian crude oil in violation of Iran sanctions</td><td>2026-05-04</td><td>US Treasury</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/am-markets-need-to-know-opec-and-oil-output-china-us-sanctions-and-more/ar-AA22kIE0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.msn.com</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">5</td><td>North Korean government / Naegohyang Women's FC</td><td>Sanctions Evasion Enforcement</td><td>Preventing $1M prize payment from reaching sanctioned North Korean government</td><td>2026-05-28</td><td>US Treasury / OFAC</td><td style="min-width:100px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.upi.com/Voices/2026/05/28/perspectives-AFC-championship-prize-money-North-Korea/5741779976190" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.upi.com</a></td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><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></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><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>