The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has published a report on “The Art Industry and US Policies that Undermine Sanctions”, which outlines how transactions involving high value art can be used to circumvent sanctions. The report makes a number of recommendations, including suggesting that, in the Subcommittee’s view: OFAC should lower or remove the 50% ownership/control threshold for sanctioning …
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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...