OFAC designates Sudan-related individuals and entities
Bank sanctions-screening and compliance teams must block or reject transactions matching the newly designated Sudan-related persons and entities under EO14098 before processing
Change
On 26 June 2026, OFAC designated multiple individuals and entities under Executive Order 14098 (Sudan-related), including Alok Choudhari; Jack Peter Derman Guzman; Fredy Alejandro Lopez Ocampo; Tariq Hussain Muhammad Madani; Enrique Daniel Palacios Quintanilla; PORTS ENGINEERING COMPANY LTD; SBL ENERGY LIMITED; TARGET MULTIACTIVITIES COMPANY LTD; and TALENT BRIDGE, S.A.
Why it matters
The designations obligate US persons and entities subject to US jurisdiction to block property and prohibit dealings with the listed parties under EO14098. Compliance operations must apply name-, identifier- and ownership-linkage screening (the designations include explicit "Linked To" relationships) so that transactions and funds transfers touching the listed parties are identified and blocked.
Implications
- — Bank sanctions-screening teams at financial institutions must add the designated individual and entity names listed under EO14098 to sanctions filters and block or reject transfers that match those names before the next funds-transfer cycle — designated parties' US-jurisdiction property is blocked under OFAC.
- — Sanctions compliance teams at banks and payment processors must configure ownership/control linkage rules to treat the regulator-formatted 'Linked To' relationships in the designations as ownership/control matches for screening and blocking (examples: CHOUDHARI → SBL ENERGY LIMITED; DERMAN GUZMAN, LOPEZ OCAMPO, PALACIOS QUINTANILLA → TALENT BRIDGE, S.A.; MADANI and SBL ENERGY LIMITED → TARGET MULTIACTIVITIES COMPANY LTD; PORTS ENGINEERING COMPANY LTD → SUDAN MASTER TECHNOLOGY).
- — KYC and transaction-monitoring teams at banks and fintechs must add the listed passport numbers, cedula numbers and company identifiers as match-resolution inputs (examples: Passport R6656526, Passport Z7551463, Passport PA1410518, Passport AY858853, Passport PA0803127; Cedula No. 882169, Cedula No. 87891056; Company Number 6596; C.I.N. U24292CT2002PLC015581; Tax ID 27AADCA3124B1ZE) to resolve name matches against the designations and block confirmed matches.
Who is affected
- — Bank sanctions-screening teams at financial institutions
- — Sanctions compliance teams at banks and payment processors
- — KYC and transaction-monitoring teams at banks and fintechs