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Mara Lee

Mara Lee, Senior Editor, is a reporter for International Trade Today and its sister publications Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. She joined the Warren Communications News staff in early 2018, after covering health policy, Midwestern Congressional delegations, and the Connecticut economy, insurance and manufacturing sectors for the Hartford Courant, the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper (established 1674). Before arriving in Washington D.C. to cover Congress in 2005, she worked in Ohio, where she witnessed fervent presidential campaigning every four years.

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OFAC Designates Senior Taliban Leader a Global Terrorist
October 21, 2015 |Treasury Dept.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control listed senior Taliban leader, Torek Agha, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist on Oct. 20 (here). OFAC also added Agha to the Specially Designated Nationals list (here). Agha is Pakistani and operates largely in Afghanistan, the agency said. The designation included prohibitions against knowingly providing, attempting or conspiring to provide material support or resources or engaging in transactions with this entity. The designations also freeze all property and interests of the entity in the U.S. or in the control of U.S. citizens

OFAC Removes More Colombians From SDN List
October 16, 2015 |Treasury Dept.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control dropped ten Colombian individuals from its Specially Designated Nationals list on Oct. 15 (here). OFAC originally placed those individuals on the list over narcotics allegations. The agency has steadily dropped Colombian individuals and entities from the SDN list over recent months, while continuing to add some individuals and entities (see 1506250001 and 1506080019).

OFAC Adds Kaikai Technology to SDN List Over Synthetic Drug Trafficking
October 16, 2015 |Treasury Dept.

U.S. individuals and companies are now barred from dealing with Chinese-based Kaikai Technology after the Office of Foreign Assets Control on Oct. 15 put the company and owner Bo Peng, a Chinese national, on the Specially Designated Nationals list under authorities provided by the Kingpin Act, the agency said (here). OFAC labeled Kaikai a “purported pharmaceutical and chemical products company” that has exported large amounts of synthetic drugs, including stimulants and marijuana. A grand jury in a Florida district court indicted Peng on charges of “importing and conspiring to import ethylone and the Schedule I controlled substance methylone,” said OFAC. The OFAC action freezes all Kaikai and Peng assets in the U.S.

OFAC Adds to SDN List
October 15, 2015 |Treasury Dept.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control made recent additions to its Specially Designated Nationals list due to Kingpin Act violations (here). Effective Oct. 7, the agency added three Honduran individuals to the SDN list and nearly a dozen companies, as follows:

OFAC Adds to SDN List
October 8, 2015 |Treasury Dept.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control made several recent additions to its Specially Designated Nationals list due to terrorism concerns. Effective Oct. 2, the agency added a United Kingdom national, to the SDN list (here). OFAC also added three Russian citizens to the SDN list effective Oct. 5 (here).

BIS, OFAC Unveil Newest Set of Regulatory Changes for Cuban Trade, Travel
September 18, 2015 |Top News

The Bureau of Industry and Security and the Office of Foreign Assets Control issued concurrent final rules to expand a set of mechanisms to ease trade and other dealings with Cuba. The regulatory changes are the first administrative action on Cuban trade since the removal of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in July (see 1507210028). The newest changes, which take effect on Sept. 21, build on rules issued by BIS and OFAC in January to initiate closer ties with Cuba (see 1501150031). The following is a round-up of the most critical aspects of the changes.