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  Founders and CEO of cryptocurrency mixing service arrested and charged with money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting offenses

  IRS Criminal Investigation

  April 25, 2024

  Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill are charged with operating Samourai Wallet, an unlicensed money transmitting business that executed over $2 billion in unlawful transactions and laundered over $100 million in criminal proceeds

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  Treasury Targets Networks Facilitating Illicit Trade and UAV Transfers on Behalf of Iranian Military

  OFAC

  April 25, 2024

  WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning over one dozen entities, individuals, and vessels that have played a central role in facilitating and financing the clandestine sale of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), which itself is involved in supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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  Financial sanctions update: Iran

  OFSI

  April 25, 2024

  On 25 April 2024 the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated the UK Sanctions List on GOV.UK. This list provides details of those designated under regulations made under the Sanctions Act. The following 6 entries have been added to the Iran financial sanctions regime and are now subject to an asset freeze:

  • Abbas Abdi Asjerd (Group ID: 16483)
  • Seyed Mohsen Vahabzadeh Moghadam (Group ID: 16480)
  • Alvand Motorbuilding Industries Company (Group ID: 16482)
  • Bonyan Danesh Shargh Private Company (Group ID: 16481)
  • Moj Gostar Aseman Parvaz Company (Group ID: 16479)
  • Pishro Sanat Aseman Sharif Company (Group ID: 16484)