Sanctions enforcement, evasion techniques, cryptocurrency mixing, and compliance risks.
President Trump waived the Russia provisions of the new Graham sanctions law two days before they were due to take effect. The waiver has no end date, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has described a 60-day review.
In every place a buyer's check would look, the public corporate filings and the chief executive's own word, Oxygen Forensics read American for the four years it was Russian-owned.
Fifteen governments told the UN this week they intend to make knowingly helping any of 24 criminal groups a crime. None of it is law yet.
Iran is now enforcing a blacklist inside the Strait of Hormuz with gunfire, collecting the toll in crypto, and running the whole apparatus through an organization it is a federal crime to pay.
$777.78 million. That is what a French cement company paid the US government in 2022 for keeping one plant open in Syria. The legal architecture behind that bill was signed twelve days after 9/11.
The United Arab Emirates is one of Washington's closest partners in the Middle East. It is also, per Treasury's own finding this month, the route through which $1.8 billion in suspected Iranian money moved through one bank's Dubai branches.
Sanctions did to Venezuela's oil output what an OPEC quota never could. Now that oil might end up refilling America's own strategic reserve.
A Nvidia DGX B300, a high-end AI server, sells for more than $1.1 million on China's black market, more than double its roughly $550,000 US retail price. Export controls have created a real market for stolen equipment, one worth enough that people are already going to serious lengths to acquire the hardware.
Somali piracy nearly disappeared after 2011, suppressed by years of international naval patrols. It came back this year in the worst wave in a decade: three tankers hijacked between April and July, with ransom demands of $3 million and $10 million on two of them.