By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

OFAC increased penalties take effect

On 1 July 2016, OFAC issued an “interim final rule” increasing the maximum penalties for breach of US sanctions for inflation, with effect from 1 August 2016. The increases are: – from $65,000 to $83,864 for the Cuba sanctions regime; – from $1,075,000 to $1,414,020 under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act; – from $250,000 to $284,582 for violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers…...

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Maya Lester KC is a senior barrister (King’s Counsel) at Brick Court Chambers with a wide-ranging practice in public law, European law, competition law, international law, human...

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