{"id":6979,"date":"2019-06-05T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/ofac-expands-its-cuba-related-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:16:00","slug":"ofac-expands-its-cuba-related-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/ru\/ofac-expands-its-cuba-related-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"OFAC Expands Its Cuba-Related Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NF-blog.png\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"960\" data-large_image_height=\"640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13335 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NF-blog-300x200-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>On June 4, 2019, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (\u201cOFAC\u201d), in coordination with the Department of Commerce\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security, amended its Cuba-related regulations to establish a general policy of denial for license applications involving passenger and recreational vessels and private and corporate aircrafts.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">OFAC made this amendment to further implement the U.S. President\u2019s foreign policy on Cuba, and cut potential sources of funds for the Cuban military, intelligence, and security services. In this regard, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin explained that \u201cCuba continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western Hemisphere, providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua by fomenting instability, undermining the rule of law, and suppressing democratic processes.\u201d<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Under these same foreign policy considerations, OFAC also amended its regulations to remove the general authorization that they established for the\u00a0educational and cultural trips to Cuba known as \u201cpeople to people.\u201d\u00a0Specifically, U.S. travelers will only be able to visit Cuba under this format, if they had completed at least one travel-related transaction (such as purchasing a flight or reserving accommodation) prior to June 5, 2019.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Companies, financial institutions, and their representatives should take great care to understand OFAC\u2019s amendments to its Sanctions on Cuba and update their compliance programs in accordance with them to prevent enforcement actions by the U.S. Government. For example, in this year\u2019s cases of\u00a0UniCredit Bank AG\u00a0and\u00a0Acteon Group Ltd.\u00a0the subject companies agreed to pay significant monetary penalties and enhance their compliance programs for certain violations\u00a0of OFAC Sanctions related to Cuba.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]On June 4, 2019, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (\u201cOFAC\u201d), in coordination with the Department of Commerce\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security, amended its Cuba-related regulations to establish a general policy of denial for license applications involving passenger and recreational vessels and private and corporate aircrafts.[:es]El 4 de junio de 2019, la Oficina de Control de Activos Extranjeros (\u201cOFAC\u201d, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s), en coordinaci\u00f3n con la Oficina de Industria y Seguridad del Departamento de Comercio, modific\u00f3 sus regulaciones relacionadas 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