OFAC adds Guptas to Global Magnitsky sanctions list

OFAC has sanctioned, pursuant to Executive Order 13818 (asset freeze and travel ban), members of a South African family, Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta, and their business associate Salim Essa for engaging in “significant corruption”. Sigal Mandeleker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said that the family “leveraged its political connections to engage in widespread corruption and bribery, …