OFAC replaces 2 Ukraine/Russia-related general licences

In light of the recent US sanctions on a number of Russian oligarchs, government officials and entities (previous blog), OFAC has issued (1 May 2018) Ukraine/Russia-related General Licence 12B, which replaces and supersedes General Licence 12A. General Licence 12B now permits originating and intermediary US financial institutions to process funds transfers that they would otherwise block to an account held by a...