8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (23)
#7245849 at 2019-07-29 19:07:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9270: THINK 2020! THINK NARRATIVE! KEEP IT GOING! Edition
Trump Admin Sanctions N. Korean Nuclear Weapons Enabler
DPRK official illicitly operating weapons scheme from Vietnam
The Trump administration on Monday issued new sanctions against a North Korean official who the United States accuses of aiding Pyongyang's illicit nuclear weapons and ballistic missile research programs.
The latest disclosures indicate that a senior North Korean official sought to import and export sensitive materials through Vietnam, a matter that is rankling U.S. diplomats working to push North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un back to the negotiating table.
North Korea's illegal efforts to skirt international sanctions on its weapons of mass destruction program have occurred as the country continues efforts to test nuclear weapons in defiance of international restrictions, according to information provided by the Treasury Department.
The administration is leaving the door open to further sanctions on North Korea and those tied to its nuclear weapons program.
"Treasury continues to enforce existing sanctions against those who violate United Nations Security Council resolutions (UNSCRs) and evade U.S. sanctions on North Korea's unlawful nuclear and ballistic missile programs," Sigal Mandelker, Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.
The latest sanctions target Kim Su Il, a North Korean official tied to the country's weapons program. He is accused of skirting existing sanctions by running an illicit shipment scheme from Vietnam
"Kim Su Il has violated [United Nations Security Council Resolutions] and supports North Korea's weapons program," Mandelker said.
Kim Su Il was specifically sanctioned for his role in the sanctions evasion scheme.
"The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated a North Korean individual operating from Vietnam, Kim Su Il, for his ties to the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK)," the Treasury Department said in information provided to reporters.
"Kim Su Il is also an employee of the Munitions Industry Department (MID); a WPK subordinate that is United Nations (UN)- and U.S.-designated for its involvement in key aspects of North Korea's missile program, which is subject to a range of U.S. sanctions restrictions," according to the Treasury Department. "This action reflects continued enforcement of UN and U.S. sanctions."
Kim Su Il is said to have continued his work for North Korea's munitions department while posing as a trade official in Vietnam.
The administration "designated Kim Su Il, a trading company official who works on behalf of the MID in Vietnam ... for being an official of the WPK," the Treasury Department said.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-admin-sanctions-n-korean-nuclear-weapons-enabler/
#7167508 at 2019-07-24 19:36:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9170: Shills playin in the dough, Muckin up the board! Rain Kek Anons!!Edition
Israel-born Treasury official is at the center of U.S. policies on Iran
According to a just published report in the Atlantic and a previous article by a former CIA officer, an Israeli-born individual is at the center of U.S. policies targeting Iran.
The Atlantic reports that financial sanctions are the "key tool" the United States has been using against Iran during "the past three presidential administrations." And Treasury official Sigal Mandelker" is the one with her hand on the lever."
According to the article, "Because Trump is anxious to avoid war with Iran but also eager to push the Iranians, she is one of the most powerful officials designing the strategy Trump's administration hopes will force Iranian capitulation-or, failing that, perhaps even the government's collapse."
Mandelker has been working on governmental policies since 2006 - the year in which U.S. officials "focused on finding ways to cut off Iran from the global financial system."
According to Mandelker's Treasury Department bio, from 2006-2009, Mandelker served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. Prior to that, she was Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security, "where she advised the Secretary and worked extensively on intelligence, national security, counterterrorism, and border security matters."
In 2017 Mandelker was named Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. As we will see, this office was created at the behest of Israel partisans. It provides a powerful position from which to direct policies.
In this position she is in charge of "developing and implementing U.S. government strategies to combat terrorist [sic] financing and money laundering... She oversees the operation and coordinates actions of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), and the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC)."
In the years just before her 2017 Under Secretary appointment, Mandelker was a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP, a powerful, politically connected international law firm with ties to Israel. The pro-Israel website Algemeiner,* reports: "Historically, Proskauer Rose was known as a 'Jewish' law firm." Partner Joseph M. Proskauer was "a Democratic Party stalwart, friend of politicians, state judge, civic and philanthropic personality, and major fund raiser for the state of Israel."
Born in Israel
It appears that Mandelker is or was an Israeli citizen who was born in Israel. While this is periodically referred to in Israeli and Jewish media, the Treasury Department has refused to answer whether Mandelker is still an Israeli citizen, despite numerous email and phone inquiries requesting this information about a high U.S. official.
The information is particularly relevant since U.S. attacks on Israel's neighbors are often pushed by Israel partisans concerned with maintaining Israeli hegemony in the region.
Dual citizenship became permissible in the U.S. in 1967 under a decision by the Abe Fortas Supreme Court in a case on behalf of Israel that broke a 200 year American tradition. Today, many Americans feel that such a potential conflict of interest by governmental officials should, at minimum, be divulged to the U.S. public, and perhaps disallowed.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-born-treasury-official-is-at-the-center-of-u-s-policies-on-iran/
#7139291 at 2019-07-23 00:42:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9134: Not So Stealth Flyover The National Mallrats Edition
War Propaganda: Iran Sleeper Cells Ready to Kill Brits
On Monday, The Sun ran a scary story insisting evil Hezbollah sleeper cells are "preparing to strike" the UK in the wake of Iran's tit-for-tat seizure of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The newspaper picked up the story from The Telegraph.
As usual, there is no evidence of this, only speculation the corporate propaganda media spins into reality, thus building step-by-step an excuse to attack Iran.
Iran-backed terror cells could be deployed to launch deadly attacks in the UK, according to intelligence sources quoted last night.
As tensions escalate over the seizure of a British oil tanker, spy chiefs believe Iran may give the green light to its hidden proxy fighters if the crisis deepens.
Should open warfare erupt, MI5 and MI6 think Iran could call upon its network of terrorist sleeper cells to carry out atrocities, The Telegraph reported.
Pair the verbs "could" and "believe" with The Sun's clickbait headline telling us an attack is a foregone conclusion. Because many if not most people are headline skimmers, this misleading headline has become a fact. It is added to the muddle of fake news and half-truth the media cranks out.
Meanwhile, the US, Israel, and the UK have attempted to destabilize Iran from within the country for more than a decade. Recall Iran's accusation of black ops run by MI6 terrorists back in 2010.
Dr. Ismail Salami wrote in 2012:
British elements were behind five assassinations in 2007 and 2008 in Iran. The detainees said they had been promised USD 20,000 for every assassination. They reportedly received instructions from their commander Jalal Fattahi in Sulaimaniya, Iraq. Fattahi, who was also a commander with the terrorist Komala group, resides in London and has, on the strength of the detainees' testimonies, conducted a number of assassinations in western Iranian cities since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The Israeli Mossad has carried out an assassination program inside Iran for years, killing scientists allegedly working on a nuclear weapons program that cannot be confirmed. Both the US and Israel worked on the Stuxnet virus to cripple Iranian power plants. The malware subsequently posed a threat to countries outside of Iran.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/73932/war-propaganda-iran-sleeper-cells-ready-to-kill.html
Cont. from im ages:
According to Trump, however, the capture of CIA operatives never happened.
The success of the ongoing plan to malnourish children and inflict "maximum pressure" on ordinary Iranians is being orchestrated by an Israeli citizen, Sigal Mandelker, the successor to a number of Zionists at the US Treasury.
#6826052 at 2019-06-23 23:19:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8730: On The Move Edition
Treasury Sanctions Members of Nicaraguan President's Inner Circle
The Trump administration on June 21 sanctioned four senior officials in Nicaragua in response to their roles in violating human rights, censoring the media, enacting oppressive laws, and denying medical care to fellow citizens. The Department of Treasury said the officials are part of the inner circle of Nicaraguan socialist dictator Daniel Ortega. The sanctions block the assets of the four officials: National Assembly President Gustavo Porras, Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Service (TELCOR) General Director Orlando Castillo, Minister of Health Sonia Castro, and Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Oscar Mojica. The affected assets are either based on U.S. soil or in the possession of a U.S. citizen.
"The Government of Nicaragua continues to violate the human rights of the Nicaraguan people, implementing exploitive and violent laws and holding hundreds of people as political prisoners. The United States is sending an unequivocal message to President Ortega and his inner circle: we stand with the Nicaraguan people on their calls for reform and a return to democracy," said Sigal Mandelker, undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence. "We will not hesitate to take action against those who perpetuate oppression or prop up the Ortega regime at the expense of the Nicaraguan people."
Porras, the National Assembly president, was targeted for his role in enacting a law that pardoned the police officers who killed hundreds of protesters during a violent crackdown last year. The same law also pardoned the surviving demonstrators, but only if they vowed to never again take part in protests against Ortega's regime. Protests broke out last year after Ortega announced social security reforms that increased taxes while reducing benefits. Ortega ordered a violent take-down, with police killing 26 people on the first day of the protests. The socialist dictator also shut down independent television channels that reported on the violence.
Castillo, the TELCOR director, was sanctioned for his role in silencing independent TV channels. One of the channels, 100 Percent Noticias, remained off the air for an entire week. Months after the protests, government police beat at least seven journalists with batons, including one of the country's best-known editors. Castro, the minister of health, was sanctioned for refusing treatment to victims of the regime's violent crackdown. The lack of medical care resulted in exacerbated injuries and preventable deaths. Hospitals employees were ordered to report protesters to the parapolice, who would then remove the demonstrators from hospitals. The ministry fired hundreds of hospital personnel who treated injured protesters.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/treasury-sanctions-members-of-nicaraguan-presidents-inner-circle_2974919.html
#6824788 at 2019-06-23 19:47:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8728: "It's the BREAK" KITCHEN's HOT Edition
Treasury Sanctions Members of Nicaraguan President's Inner Circle
The Trump administration on June 21 sanctioned four senior officials of the Nicaraguan government in response to their roles in human rights violations, media censorship, the enactment of oppressive laws, and denying medical care to fellow citizens.
The Department of Treasury said the four officials are part of the inner circle of Nicaraguan socialist dictator Daniel Ortega.
The sanctions block the assets of National Assembly President Gustavo Porras, General Director of the Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Service (TELCOR) Orlando Castillo, Minister of Health Sonia Castro, and Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Oscar Mojico. The affected assets are either based on U.S. soil or in possession of a U.S. citizen.
"The Government of Nicaragua continues to violate the human rights of the Nicaraguan people, implementing exploitive and violent laws and holding hundreds of people as political prisoners. The United States is sending an unequivocal message to President Ortega and his inner circle: we stand with the Nicaraguan people on their calls for reform and a return to democracy," said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker.
"We will not hesitate to take action against those who perpetuate oppression or prop up the Ortega regime at the expense of the Nicaraguan people."
Porras, the National Assembly president, was targeted for his role in enacting a law that pardoned the police officers who killed hundreds of protesters during a violent crackdown last year. The same law also pardoned the surviving protesters, but only if they vowed to never again take part in protests against Ortega's regime.
Protests broke out last year after Ortega announced social security reforms that increased taxes while reducing benefits. Ortega ordered a violent take-down, with police killing 26 people on the first day of the protests. The socialist dictator also shut down independent television channels that reported on the violence.
Castillo, the TELCOR director, was sanctioned for his role in silencing the independent TV channels. One of the channels, 100 Percent Noticias, remained off the air for an entire week. Months after the protests, government police beat at least seven journalists with batons, including one of the country's best-known editors.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/treasury-sanctions-members-of-nicaraguan-presidents-inner-circle_2974919.html
#6619007 at 2019-05-29 18:09:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8463: The Kingdom for a Baker Edition
US Threatens Europe With "Loss Of Access To US Financial System" Over SWIFT-Evading Iran SPV
It's going from bad to worse for Europe, whose currency had just hit session lows after Brussels confirmed that Italy faces a massive fine over its debt, when the Euro was hit with a double whammy after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is escalating its battle with "European allies" over the fate of the Iran nuclear accord, and is "threatening penalties against the financial body created by Germany, the U.K. and France to shield trade with the Islamic Republic from U.S. sanctions."
According to Bloomberg, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Sigal Mandelker, sent a letter on May 7 warning that Instex, the European SPV to sustain trade with Tehran, and anyone associated with it could be barred from the U.S. financial system if it goes into effect.
As a reminder, last September, in order to maintain a financial relationship with Iran that can not be vetoed by the US, Europe unveiled a "Special Purpose Vehicle" to bypass SWIFT. Back then we predicted that Washington would not be too delighted with this development seeking to undermine the dollar's reserve status. We were right.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-29/us-threatens-europe-loss-access-us-financial-system-over-its-iran-funding-spv
Is that a dud e with Zarif?
#6562201 at 2019-05-22 23:54:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8390: Paragrah 1 Edition
U.S. in Venezuela: Is Starvation a Weapon of 'Regime Change?'
The United States is seeking to shut down Venezuela's emergency food aid program, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The stated goal of U.S. policy is combatting the corruption of the Venezuelan government. The unstated reality is that the Trump administration is doing exactly what it accuses the Maduro government of doing: weaponizing access to food.
The emergency food program-known by its Spanish initials, CLAP-is the main food source for an estimated 15% of Venezuelans and a critical supplement for a far larger percentage of the population. Officials in the Maduro government, including top military brass, "are using the CLAP program to steal from it, launder money, and for political control," the senior Treasury official said. "Corrupt Maduro continue to seek illicit revenue streams, even as the Venezuelan people and economy sink deeper into despair," said another senior Treasury official, Sigal Mandelker, the undersecretary for sanctions.
The government's defenders blame U.S. sanctions, not corruption or incompetence, as the cause of the social collapse. They depict CLAP as a program for the people of modest means. A reporter from the socialist news site Liberation visited Caracas and found food was available but expensive. CLAP, he said, is a support program, like food stamps in the United States.
One neighbor in a major housing community, Carmen Requena, showed me the latest CLAP monthly box she received. An architect, she lives alone. Her box contained six pounds of rice, six pounds of black beans, two pounds of lentils, two liter bottles of oil, two bags of milk, 2.2 pounds of sugar, 10 pounds of corn flour, the essential ingredients of arepas, mayonnaise, catsup, two cans of tuna fish.
That's not a lot to live on. By sanctioning CLAP officials, the new U.S. policy will, by design, deny food to Venezuelans like Carmen Requena. With Venezuelans already suffering record-levels of malnutrition, famine is a looming possibility.
https://deepstateblog.org/2019/05/22/u-s-in-venezuela-is-starvation-a-weapon-of-regime-change/
#4775054 at 2019-01-16 07:08:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6094: Preddy Comfy Edition
Benefiting Israel Tops Congressional Agenda
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu famously was unaware that he was being filmed when he commented that "America is a thing you can move very easily, moved in the right direction." His predecessor Ariel Sharon was even more to the point when he reportedly said "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that ...don't worry about American pressure; I tell you, we, the Jewish people, control America and the American people know it!"
If this were only chest thumping rhetoric one might just shrug and go about one's business, but actions speak louder than words, even in the world of corrupt politicians, where nothing is ever as it seems to be. In the past year alone, the U.S. government has moved its Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, has stopped criticizing the Netanyahu government's expansion of illegal settlements, and is reportedly currently contemplating recognizing as legal Israel's illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights. All the moves were and are contrary to actual American interests.
Furthermore, Israel, a country having a European level standard of living to include free education and medical care, has received more than $250 billion in "aid" from Washington. It currently is receiving $3.8 billion yearly from the U.S. Treasury as a base figure guaranteed for ten years, with supplements for special projects and programs. Adding in trade arrangements favorable to Israel and the money it gets from American Jewish donors' tax-exempt contributions, the real total per annum approaches and may even exceed $10 billion. Much of the donor money, including that from the Kushner Foundation, has gone to fund the illegal settlements on the West Bank in violation of U.S. law. And then there is the $2.7 billion given yearly to Egypt and Jordan, essentially bribes to maintain friendly relations with Israel.
The ultimate irony is that any aid to Israel is illegal in light of the fact that it has violated the Symington and Glenn amendments to the 1961 Foreign Assistance Actdue to its undeclared nuclear weapons arsenal and its refusal to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. Both Congress and the White House have chosen to ignore that complication, one more demonstration of Jewish power in the United States. In truth, Ariel Sharon, if he was quoted correctly, had it right. Jewish Americans do control or at least exercise considerable influence over key sectors in the U.S. They are overwhelmingly disproportionately present on Wall Street, in the entertainment and news industries, in academia, in high value professions and in government at all levels. Their collective power both enriches and protects Israel at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer and genuine national interests. It also enables Israeli agents in the U.S., like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to avoid scrutiny and regulation under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.
Some federal government agencies exist largely to promote Israeli interests, most notably the Treasury Department's Office for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, which has only had Jewish Under Secretaries heading it since it was founded in 2004. It is currently run by Israeli Sigal Mandelker. The office has focused on punishing Iran, Israel's principle enemy, throughout its existence.
Jewish power is most perniciously evident in U.S. foreign policy, where it has a strangle hold on relations between Washington and the Arab countries of the Middle East. Much of this leverage is derived from the fact that the principal donors to both the Democratic and Republican parties - Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson-are both Jews having very strong ties to Israel. Saban is an Israeli and Adelson may have Israeli citizenship. With both parties more than willing to act on behalf of Israel, the United States has engaged in a number of wars that serve no national interest and which have, on the contrary, brought with them devastating consequences, including the rise of new terrorist groups.
https://southfront.org/benefiting-israel-tops-congressional-agenda/
#4155207 at 2018-12-05 01:30:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5290: "Bill Preistap - Cooperating witness [power removed]" Edition
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Bitcoin Wallets For First Time
Sanctions Set a New Precedent
Though Khorashadizadeh and Ghorbaniyan were targeted for potential involvement in criminal activities, the U.S. Treasury Department's move sets a new precedent in the crypto-sphere.
With Iran currently reeling from wider economic sanctions from the U.S., and bitcoin usage on the rise in the Middle-Eastern country, it is possible that these actions could be the first of many. And the consequences for exchanges caught in the crossfire could be severe.
"As Iran becomes increasingly isolated and desperate for access to U.S. dollars, it is vital that virtual currency exchanges, peer-to-peer exchangers, and other providers of digital currency services harden their networks against these illicit schemes," explained Sigal Mandelker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Takes Aim at Privacy Coins
In addition to the push to crack down on illicit bitcoin transactions, authorities are also looking at ways to reign in privacy coins such as Monero and Zcash, according to a new PreSolicitation.
"A key feature underlying these newer blockchain platforms that is frequently emphasized is the capability for anonymity and privacy protection. While these features are desirable, there is similarly a compelling interest in tracing and understanding transactions and actions on the blockchain of an illegal nature," the PreSolicitation states.
The notice suggests that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is considering the development of a forensics tool which will allow the agency to monitor, track and identify users of a number of privacy coins, much like Chainalysis has done with the Bitcoin blockchain.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-04/us-treasury-sanctions-bitcoin-wallets-first-time
#4060925 at 2018-11-28 17:09:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5168: Expert Shitposting Edition
PRESS RELEASES
Treasury Designates Iran-Based Financial Facilitators of Malicious Cyber Activity and for the First Time Identifies Associated Digital Currency Addresses
November 28, 2018
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against two Iran-based individuals, Ali Khorashadizadeh and Mohammad Ghorbaniyan, who helped exchange digital currency (bitcoin) ransom payments into Iranian rial on behalf of Iranian malicious cyber actors involved with the SamSam ransomware scheme that targeted over 200 known victims. Also today, OFAC identified two digital currency addresses associated with these two financial facilitators. Over 7,000 transactions in bitcoin, worth millions of U.S. dollars, have processed through these two addresses - some of which involved SamSam ransomware derived bitcoin. In a related action, the U.S. Department of Justice today indicted two Iranian criminal actors for infecting numerous data networks with SamSam ransomware in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada since 2015.
"Treasury is targeting digital currency exchangers who have enabled Iranian cyber actors to profit from extorting digital ransom payments from their victims. As Iran becomes increasingly isolated and desperate for access to U.S. dollars, it is vital that virtual currency exchanges, peer-to-peer exchangers, and other providers of digital currency services harden their networks against these illicit schemes," said Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker. "We are publishing digital currency addresses to identify illicit actors operating in the digital currency space. Treasury will aggressively pursue Iran and other rogue regimes attempting to exploit digital currencies and weaknesses in cyber and AML/CFT safeguards to further their nefarious objectives."
More…
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm556
#3974625 at 2018-11-20 20:42:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5056: Carrot or the Nuke Edition
US Sanctions Russian, Iranian Companies To Disrupt Oil Shipments To Syria
The US announced new sanctions against what a "network of petroleum shipments" to Syria, including Russian and Iranian companies and individuals, in what Washington said was an attempt to disrupt shipments to Syrian-owned ports. Six individuals and three institutions were sanctioned in what the Treasury said was an illicit plot involving officials in Iran working with Russian companies to send millions of barrels of oil to the Assad government in exchange for funds that Tehran then used to fund Islamic militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
Those sanctioned include two officials working with the Central Bank of Iran, a Syrian national and his Russia-based company Global Vision Group, and Russia's state-owned Promsyrioimport, a subsidiary of the Kremlin's energy ministry, as well as its first deputy director. The administration is also sanctioning an Iranian entity that purports to be a medical and pharmaceutical company that U.S. officials say has been repeatedly used to facilitate illicit money transfers in the scheme.
"Today we are acting against a complex scheme Iran and Russia have used to bolster the Assad regime and generate funds for Iranian malign activity," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. "Central Bank of Iran officials continue to exploit the international financial system, and in this case even used a company whose name suggests a trade in humanitarian goods as a tool to facilitate financial transfers supporting this oil scheme."
As detailed in the Treasury statement, Russian companies would act as middlemen, taking money from Iran to move the oil to Syria. In one case detailed in a Treasury Department press release, the Iranian central bank transferred money to an Iranian pharmaceutical company, hoping that its humanitarian name would throw US observers off the trail. That money was then allegedly wired to a Russian bank, then to a Russian company that shipped the oil from Iran to Syria. Along the way, the Treasury Department claims that Russian ships would switch off their GPS tracking systems to conceal the origin of their cargo.
Once the cash is stashed in the Central Bank of Syria, it is then allegedly sent to Hezbollah and Hamas units operating in Lebanon and on Palestinian territory.
Trump administration officials said Syria sent hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force in return for the oil shipments, money that was then used to fund Hamas and Hezbollah.
Officials described the action as the latest effort to ratchet up pressure on Iran for its "destructive and destabilizing behavior" beyond the reimposition of sanctions lifted under the Obama administration as part of the Iranian nuclear deal. Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the deal in May and reinstated sanctions on Tehran earlier this month.
The latest sanctions build on an ongoing campaign against Iran and its allies, which target the country's banking, shipping, and oil sectors. Banks that provided services to Hamas and Hezbollah were slapped with sanctions, as were shipping companies that moved Iranian troops and supplies around the Middle East.
As reported previously, facing the threat of US penalties, the SWIFT financial messaging system cut the Iranian central bank off from its network a week later, making it even more difficult for the country to settle its import and export bills.
The administration also issued a global maritime advisory warning those in the shipping industry that they run the risk of U.S. sanctions if they are involved in shipping oil to Syria. The US has promised that it will "disrupt" any attempted shipments to government-owned ports in Syria
Keeping up the Trump administration's tough rhetoric on Iran, Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Sigal Mandelker, warned on Tuesday that "shipping companies, insurers, vessel owners, managers, and operators should all be aware of the grave consequences of engaging in sanctionable conduct involving Iranian oil shipments."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-20/us-sanctions-russian-iranian-companies-disrupt-oil-shipments-syria
SYRIA has it's own OIL this is fucking dumb as dog shit, complete fabrication
#3294215 at 2018-10-02 14:37:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4173: Red Wave Rising Edition
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against two companies and four individuals in Japan associated with the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest and most prominent Japanese Yakuza syndicate. Two Kobe, Japan-based companies, Yamaki, K.K. and Toyo Shinyo Jitsugyo K.K., along with four individuals, Utao Morio, Chikara Tsuda, Yasuo Takagi, and Katsuaki Mitsuyasu, were designated pursuant to Executive Order 13581, which targets significant transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and their supporters. These efforts are designed to protect the U.S. financial system from the malign influence of TCOs and to expose the companies and individuals who are supporting them or acting on their behalf.
"Treasury is targeting Yakuza-controlled companies to expose the underlying ownership of these seemingly legitimate companies. We are ramping up pressure on this dangerous Japanese crime syndicate and local gang leaders who profit from everything from sexual exploitation, to weapons smuggling, and extortion," said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "By exposing this broad network of front companies and individuals supporting the Yamaguchi-gumi Yakuza syndicate we intend to disrupt the global financial infrastructure of this illicit transnational criminal organization."
The Yakuza was identified as a significant TCO in the Annex to Executive Order 13581 (Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations) on July 24, 2011. The Yakuza comprises the major Japanese organized crime syndicates and is engaged in serious criminal activities, including human trafficking, drug smuggling, weapons trafficking, extortion, and white collar crimes. With the help of local crime syndicates in East Asia, the Yakuza is known to profit from nearly all aspects of sexual exploitation: sex trafficking, sex tourism, prostitution, and "mail order" marriages. The U.S. Department of the Treasury is committed to countering networks that are engaged in human trafficking and is a member of the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF).
The Yakuza engages in money laundering, using front companies within legitimate industries, including construction, real estate, and finance, to hide illicit proceeds. The Yakuza acts globally and has relationships with criminal affiliates in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. In the United States, the Yakuza has been known to be involved in money laundering and drug trafficking. To date, OFAC has designated 21 individuals, 5 criminal syndicates, 2 subsidiary gangs, and 2 companies associated with the Yakuza. This action marks the first time Yakuza-owned companies have been targeted by OFAC.
More:
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm499
#3090998 at 2018-09-19 20:54:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3911: Memes are Dangerous Edition
US Treasury Sanctions 2 Individuals Over Links to Daesh Terror Group in Syria
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States has sanctioned a dual US-Trinidadian national along with another citizen Trinidad and Tobago over their alleged roles in financing the Islamic State (Daesh) terrorist group in Syria, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We are sanctioning individuals involved in financial facilitation to obstruct and deter ISIS* financial operations in regions across the world," Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker said the statement, which identified the individuals as Emran Ali, a dual US and Trinidadian national, and Eddie Aleong a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago.
Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department announced new sanctions against four people and five entities, saying that they facilitated petroleum shipments and financing to the Syrian government and accusing one of the companies of facilitating fuel trade between the Syrian government and Daesh terrorists.
*Islamic State, also known as Daesh, ISIS or ISIL is a terror group, banned in the United States, Russia and many other countries.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201809191068180415-usa-sanctions-daesh-links/
#2726678 at 2018-08-24 22:34:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3443: Fun Friday Afternoon Edition
TODAY
Treasury Sanctions Three ISIS Recruiters from Southeast Asia
Action Targets Radicals Engaged in Beheading Video and Follows UN Designation
Washington - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today by designating three senior Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) recruiters: Mohamad Rafi Udin (Udin), Mohammed Karim Yusop Faiz (Faiz), and Mohammad Reza Lahaman Kiram (Kiram). Udin, Faiz, and Kiram have urged individuals in Southeast Asia to join ISIS and were featured in an official ISIS beheading video, where they executed captives held by ISIS.
"Treasury is targeting ISIS recruiters who have engaged in a beheading video and other brutal acts as part of a propaganda campaign to attract radicals to join militant terrorist groups in Southeast Asia," said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "We are sanctioning these terrorists along with our UN and international partners as part of a coordinated effort to counter ISIS's global networks that enable the group to recruit foreign fighters to conduct international terrorist attacks."
https://home.treasury.gov/index.php/news/press-releases/sm469
#2655540 at 2018-08-18 13:47:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3352 Good Morning Uncle Q Edition
NEW US TREASURY DESIGNATIONS: Build on International Efforts to Hold Accountable Persons Responsible for Serious Human Rights Abuses in Burma
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Burmese military and Border Guard Police (BGP) commanders and two Burmese military units for their involvement in ethnic cleansing in Burma's Rakhine State and other widespread human rights abuses in Burma's Kachin and Shan States. Burmese military commanders Aung Kyaw Zaw, Khin Maung Soe, Khin Hlaing, and BGP commander Thura San Lwin, along with the 33rd Light Infantry Division (LID) and the 99th LID, were designated pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which builds upon the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act of 2016 to target perpetrators of serious human rights abuse and corruption.
"Burmese security forces have engaged in violent campaigns against ethnic minority communities across Burma, including ethnic cleansing, massacres, sexual assault, extrajudicial killings, and other serious human rights abuses. Treasury is sanctioning units and leaders overseeing this horrific behavior as part of a broader U.S. government strategy to hold accountable those responsible for such wide scale human suffering," said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "There must be justice for the victims and those who work to uncover these atrocities, with those responsible held to account for these abhorrent crimes. The U.S. government is committed to ensuring that Burmese military units and leaders reckon with and put a stop to these brutal acts. We will continue to systematically expose and bring accountability to human rights abusers in this region and many others and greatly appreciate the efforts of civil society who are doing the same."
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm460
#2646808 at 2018-08-17 19:51:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3341: Cool And Calm Edition
U.S. Hits Burma Military With Sanctions for Human Rights Abuses
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on four Burma military and police commanders and two army units for involvement in what it called "ethnic cleansing" and other human rights abuses against the country's Rohingya Muslims, the Treasury Department said.
"Burmese security forces have engaged in violent campaigns against ethnic minority communities across Burma, including ethnic cleansing, massacres, sexual assault, extrajudicial killings, and other serious human rights abuses," said Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker.
"Treasury is sanctioning units and leaders overseeing this horrific behavior as part of a broader U.S. government strategy to hold accountable those responsible for such wide-scale human suffering," Mandelker said.
The sanctions marked the toughest U.S. action so far in response to Burma's crackdown on the Rohingya minority.
The Trump administration earlier imposed sanctions on the chief of Burma's western military command, Gen. Maung Maung Soe, who stands accused of ordering ethnic cleansing.
"Today, the United States is taking a strong stand against human rights abuse and corruption globally by shutting these bad actors out of the U.S. financial system. Treasury is freezing their assets and publicly denouncing the egregious acts they've committed, sending a message that there is a steep price to pay for their misdeeds," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a Dec. 21, 2017, U.S. Department of the Treasury press release.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/u-s-hits-burma-military-with-sanctions-for-human-rights-abuses_2626708.html
#2572383 at 2018-08-12 20:09:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3246: "locate and IDEN 'potentially' sensitive Tweets" Edition
>>2572104
Pics are Zhao Wei, and the Kings Romans Casino in Laos. Still digging on this. Dirty in every imaginable way - human trafficking, drugs, weapons, even endangered animals.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-treasury-department-places-sanctions-on-zhao-wei-criminal-organization/
the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted with its latest designations.
"The Zhao Wei crime network engages in an array of horrendous illicit activities, including human trafficking and child prostitution, drug trafficking, and wildlife trafficking," said Sigal Mandelker, under secretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence. "We are targeting key figures in this transnational criminal organization, which stretches from the Kings Romans Casino in Laos throughout Southeast Asia."
The network also engages in money laundering and bribery in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, an area known for opium production.
"OFAC is designating the Zhao Wei network as part of a broader strategy to disrupt the financial infrastructure of transnational criminal organizations that pose a threat to the United States and our allies," Mandelker added.
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on four individuals and three entities across Laos, Thailand, and Hong Kong for involvement with the Zhao Wei network. The U.S. assets of all entities designated by the OFAC are now frozen, and Americans are forbidden from dealing with them.
Treasury officials said the network operates largely through the Kings Romans Casino to store and distribute heroin, methamphetamine, and other narcotics for illicit networks, in addition to human and wildlife trafficking and child prostitution.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2131458/two-hong-kong-companies-named-hub-international-drugs-and
"The nine-year-old casino - built largely to cater to tourists from southern China - is not far from where 13 Chinese sailors on two drugs-laden cargo ships were murdered in 2011, the deadliest assault on Chinese nationals overseas in modern times.
The US said the criminal network organises the storage and distribution of heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs for illicit networks.
Since 2014, Thai, Laotian and Chinese authorities have seized large drug shipments that have been traced to the casino."
#2370814 at 2018-07-31 14:46:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2987: Angels of the Morning Edition
Treasury Issues Sanctions Against Lashkar-E Tayyiba Financial Facilitators
July 31, 2018
Designations Continue to Pressure and Expose Terrorist Fundraising and Support Networks
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today to disrupt Lashkar-e Tayyiba's (LeT) fundraising and support networks by designating two of the group's financial facilitators, Hameed ul Hassan (Hassan) and Abdul Jabbar (Jabbar), as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224. OFAC is designating Hassan and Jabbar for acting for or on behalf of Lashkar-e Tayyiba, a terrorist organization based in Pakistan.
"These Lashkar-e Tayyiba financial facilitators are responsible for collecting, transporting and distributing funds to support this terrorist group and provide salaries to extremists," said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "Treasury's designations not only aim to expose and shut down Lashkar-e Tayyiba's financial network, but also to curtail its ability to raise funds to carry out violent terrorist attacks."
All property and interests in property of Hassan and Jabbar subject to U.S. jurisdiction are now blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm448
#2062697 at 2018-07-07 02:07:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2602: We Are With Qou, Jim
Didn't see this in the breads
YESTERDAY Treasury Sanctions Three Nicaraguan Individuals for Serious Human Rights Abuse and Corrupt Acts
3 More people under the GloMag EO signed 12/21/17
Highlights:
-Since protests began on April 18, the Nicaraguan government's violent response has included beatings of journalists, attacks against local TV and radio stations, and assaults on mothers mourning the deaths of their children.
"The violence perpetrated by the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega against the Nicaraguan people and the efforts of those close to the Ortega regime to illicitly enrich themselves is deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable," said Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "President Ortega and his inner circle continue to violate basic freedoms of innocent civilians while ignoring the Nicaraguan people's calls for the democratic reforms they demand, including free, fair, and transparent elections. These sanctions are part of our ongoing campaign under the Global Magnitsky program to hold individuals who engage in human rights abuses and corruption to account."
sauce:
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm422
#1771389 at 2018-06-16 11:46:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2229: The Place To Be On Friday Night Edition
Late find…I'll post in next bread too.
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https://www.ft.com/content/b650e53a-70c4-11e8-852d-d8b934ff5ffa
MORE SANCTIONS TIED TO EO SIGNED 12-21
The US has slapped further penalties on Dan Gertler, an Israeli businessman who has invested in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The US Treasury Department said Friday it had placed 14 companies with ties to Mr Gertler on a sanctions list, which targets serious human rights abuse and corruption
"Treasury is sanctioning companies that have enabled Dan Gertler to access the international financial system and profit from corruption and misconduct. We are using our tools to change the behaviour of those engaged in the looting of natural resources and the humanitarian consequences that follow," said Sigal Mandelker, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.
https://www.ft.com/content/b650e53a-70c4-11e8-852d-d8b934ff5ffa
Treasury Press Release:
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0417
#1719935 at 2018-06-12 23:12:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2164: "Comms Dark" Edition
Hmm… Anons? Haiti reconstruction and human rights absuses connections?
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0411
Treasury Sanctions Two Individuals and Five Entities Under Global Magnitsky
Designations Represent Latest Efforts to Isolate Serious Human Rights Abusers and Corrupt Actors from the US. Financial System
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Dominican Republic Senator Felix Ramon Bautista Rosario (Bautista) for engaging in corrupt acts, including in relation to reconstruction efforts in Haiti, and Cambodian General Hing Bun Hieng (Bun Hieng) for being the leader of an entity involved in serious human rights abuse, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which targets perpetrators of corruption and serious human rights abuse and corruption. OFAC also designated five entities owned or controlled by Bautista.
"These actions are part of our continuing campaign to hold accountable government officials and other actors involved in human rights abuse and corrupt activities. Senator Bautista used his position to engage in corruption, including profiting off of humanitarian efforts related to rebuilding Haiti. General Bun Hieng commanded a Cambodian unit that engaged in a series of human rights abuses, and was personally implicated in attacks against a number of individuals, including a U.S. citizen," said Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "The United States will continue to use Global Magnitsky and our other authorities to ensure that corrupt actors and human rights violators cannot use our financial system to enable and support their abhorrent activities and exploit the innocent."
#1097893 at 2018-04-19 04:16:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1371: Flattbrød Edition
>>1091272
Laos!
"...fabulously wealthy, 58-year-old Su Guiqin is queen of the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, a small enclave in the far northwest of Laos that, just over a decade ago, was a poor fishing village on the Mekong River. With her husband, Zhao Wei, she now runs the Kings Romans empire, a Hong Kong-registered business that took out a 99-year lease on a 3,000-hectare chunk of Bokeo province in a deal with the Laos government in 2007 and transformed it into a lavish gambling resort.
Hundreds of millions of US dollars of investment poured in as jungle, rice paddies and peasant homes were cleared to make way for a casino.
"The Zhao Wei crime network engages in an array of horrendous illicit activities, including human trafficking and child prostitution, drug trafficking and wildlife trafficking," said Sigal Mandelker, US Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence."
"...slabs of rhino horn and pieces of ivory were available at stalls inside the entrance of the Blue Shield Casino. In the nearby shopping area, outlets were selling elephant skin and rhino horn for 200 yuan (HK$250) a gram.
Chinese tourists can buy a tiger for 3 million yuan or a moon bear for 170,000 yuan. The animals are sometimes slaughtered and their meat served to gambling parties in the casino's VIP rooms, they say."
...illgal wildlife body parts at a lobby shop at Don Chan Palace, a five-star hotel just a few hundred metres from the Presidential Palace and government buildings. Inside, we find bottles of tiger bone wine on sale for 1,650 yuan, packets of bear bile powder for 340 yuan and ivory bracelets for 400 yuan."
http:// www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2141464/mr-big-wildlife-trafficking-could-elusive-laos
#1092191 at 2018-04-18 19:59:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1363: We will win Edition
>>1091766
Laos?
http:// www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2141464/mr-big-wildlife-trafficking-could-elusive-laos
"The Zhao Wei crime network engages in an array of horrendous illicit activities, including human trafficking and child prostitution, drug trafficking and wildlife trafficking," said Sigal Mandelker, US Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. "We are targeting key figures in this transnational criminal organisation which stretches from the Kings Romans casino in Laos throughout Southeast Asia."
Check this out.