By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

USA & France coordinate sanctions on global procurement network for Syria’s chemical weapons programme

Yesterday, OFAC designated 8 individuals and 5 entities, pursuant to Executive Order 13382 (imposes asset freezes), for being “key components of a vast network procuring electronics on behalf of Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), the agency responsible for the development of Syria’s chemical weapons”. In a coordinated action, the French government also renewed asset freezes on 24 entities and…...

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Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters &...

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