By Oscar Gonzalez2025-09-09T16:51:00
A Houston-based freight forwarder company. Fracht FWO Inc.. will have to pay $1.61 million for violating U.S. sanctions tied to Venezuela and Iran, according to a Sept. 3 announcement from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). OFAC has ramped up its enforcement in recent months, a clear signal that the second Trump administration will continue punishing firms for sanctions violations.
The OFAC case dated to May 2022, when a Fracht affiliate based in Mexico reached out to its parent company to help with an order of car parts to a customer in Argentina.
2025-07-31T18:47:00Z By Adrianne Appel
More than 50 people and 50 ships connected to a top Iranian official were added to the U.S. Treasury’s sanctions list on Wednesday, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
2025-07-09T14:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
A Connecticut-based audio electronics company will pay a $1.4 million fine for violating U.S. sanctions, after middle managers at a foreign distributor knowingly diverted the company’s products to Iran.
2025-07-02T20:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
A Delaware logistics company paid a $608,825 fine for violating U.S. sanctions on Cuba, a breach that the company self-disclosed to the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
2025-09-08T14:27:00Z By Adrianne Appel
BNY, Citigroup, Santander, UBS, and two other financial institutions paid a total of $8.3M to settle separate compliance violations with the CFTC.
2025-09-05T18:10:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay a $3 million fine and has returned $5 million in fee overcharges to customers as part of a resolution with Hong Kong’s financial services regulator.
2025-09-04T17:31:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The majority owner of a Pennsylvania investment firm faces 100 years of prison time and huge fines for allegedly running a $770 million Ponzi scheme centered on an ATM company he also owned.
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