FinCEN updates red flags to watch for in thwarting West Bank settler violence
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Jeff Dale2024-07-15T16:45:00
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) updated an alert first issued in February warning financial institutions of Israeli extremists fomenting violence in the West Bank.
The alert, issued Thursday, adds additional red flags to “assist U.S. financial institutions in identifying and reporting suspicious activity that finances West Bank violence,” FinCEN said in a press release.
In a concurrent action, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of State sanctioned and designated individuals and entities linked to the violence, including four farms in the West Bank.
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