Sanctions Guidance
This section tells you about the current guidance available in relation to sanctions:
External guidance
- OFSI Threat Assessment Reports
- Wolfsberg Guidance on Sanctions Screening
- Typologies: Sanctions and Trade Based Money Laundering
- OFAC Sanctions Advisory – Sham Transactions and Sanctions Evasion
Guidance - sanctions regime
A regime is a collection of sanctions measures put in place for a particular set of purposes. Regimes can either be thematic i.e. relating to a particular issue or geographic i.e. relating to a particular country or region. The sanctions and relevant guidance relating to geographic and thematic issues are divided into the below two sections.
Geographic
Information and guidance on current sanctions regimes relating to specific countries can be found below:
- Afghanistan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Iran
- Iraq
- Lebanon
- Lebanon (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others)
- Libya
- Mali
- Myanmar
- Nicaragua
- Republic of Belarus
- Russia
- Somalia
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Syria (Cultural Property)
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Thematic
Information and guidance on current sanctions relating to a particular issue can be found below:
