Sanctions News

Griffith argues that because his April 2019 conference presentation consisted of widely-available public information, he was not providing a "service" to North Korean officials

Venezuela has announced a 90-day trial for a decentralized stock exchange supporting “alternative digital assets” and fiat currencies.

Malware payouts from insurance companies pose a threat to U.S. national security.

Crypto garnered another mention in one of Maduro's bombastic speeches.

The U.S. government is charging ahead in its pursuit of privacy tokens, according to its latest sanctions.

New wire fraud charges against St. Petersburg trolls allege that they stole the identities of U.S. citizens to open crypto accounts.

As new U.S. election nears, the Treasury adds new names and crypto addresses to its specially designated nationals list

Iran’s government OKs power plants mining crypto as the country moves forward with a national strategy for cryptocurrency mining.

The U.S. government issued a $5 million bounty to the supervisor of the Petro, but court documents suggest that crypto has little to do with alleged sanction evasion schemes.

Iran’s president has tasked officials at the central bank and ministries of energy, communications and IT with drafting plans for a national cryptocurrency mining strategy.

Iran is set to redenominate its fiat currency, removing four zeros to create a new fiat called toman as demand for crypto is surging.

Iran’s parliament votes to institute a new currency as coronavirus and sanctions hyperinflate the rial and local Bitcoin prices skyrocket relative to official exchanges.

Following much speculation in the press in recent weeks, a friend of the DPRK has said that Kim Jong-un is in good health.

U.S. agencies work to handle crypto in sanctions evasion, but may ultimately just cut the country off from an evolving financial world.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Chinese nationals accused of laundering cryptocurrency that was stolen in a 2018 crypto exchange hack.