OFAC targets Russians circumventing US sanctions & Russian shipping companies violating N.Korea sanctions

Today, OFAC has sanctioned 2 entities (Russia-based Vela-Marine Ltd and Slovakia-based Lacno S.R.O.) and 2 Russian individuals (Marina Igorevna Tsareva and Anton Aleksandrovich Nagibin) for attempting to “circumvent U.S. sanctions”. They were designated pursuant to Executive Order 13694 (as amended) based on the actions they undertook for Divetechnoservices, a Russian entity sanctioned in June 2018,…