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Office Of Enforcement

Civil Penalties and Enforcement Information

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2008 Enforcement Information
 
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Civil Penalties Chart
Civil Penalties Information Chart

Detailed Penalties Information

Aggregate Number of Penalties or Settlements this Month

Monthly Penalties/Settlements Total in USD
04/11/2008 PDF icon 8 20,920



6 27,398



11 244,180



7 109,100



Year to date totals:
24 401,598
compass icon What related guidance does OFAC have on its enforcement policies?
  What is your OFAC Risk?
    OFAC Risk Matrices (for financial institutions as of June 2005) PDF icon
    OFAC Risk Matrix (for the Charitable Sector as of March 2007) PDF icon
  How do I manage my OFAC risk as compared to Bank Secrecy Act expectations?
    BSA/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual - Office of Foreign Assets Control (July 2006) PDF icon
  How do OFAC's actions and expectations intersect with the bank regulators?
    Memoranda of Understanding between OFAC and bank regulators
  Notice of new OFAC Civil Penalties Interim Policy
    Increased the maximum civil penalty applicable to violations of orders or regulations issued under IEEPA PDF icon
Capitol building  Icon What laws, rules and regulations provide the legal framework for the sanctions?
  Executive Orders
    No documents currently available
 
Statutes
    IEEPA, 50 USCS Sec 1701 PDF icon
    TWEA, 50 USCS Sec 5PDF icon
 
Code of Federal Regulations
    31 CFR 501 PDF icon Foreign Assets Control Regulations
 
Federal Register Notices
    68 FR 4422-03 PDF icon - OFAC Enforcement Guidelines (January 2003)
    68 FR 6820-03 PDF icon - Rules Governing the Availability of OFAC enforcement Information
    68 FR 53640-03 PDF icon - Civil Penalties Rights and Procedures for the Cuba Sanctions Program
    68 FR 61359-03 PDF icon - Implementation of requirement under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990
    70 FR 15761-05 PDF icon - Administrative Collection of Civil Penalties in the Iranian Assets Control Regulations, the Libyan Sanctions Regulations, and the Iraqi Sanctions Regulations
    71 FR 1971-06 PDF icon -Economic Sanctions Enforcement Procedures for Banking Institutions Regulated by FFIEC-member Supervisory Agencies
  Comments Received on 71 FR 1971-06 PDF icon - these comments have been compiled into a single file in order to make the entire collection easier to download.
    71 FR 1994-06 PDF icon - Notice of partial withdrawal of the 2003 proposed Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines
    71 FR 29251-06 PDF icon
Legal Information and Publication Schedule - Civil Penalties and Informal Settlements
The following information is made available pursuant to Section 501.805, Part 501, Reporting and Procedures Regulations, Title 31, Code of Federal Regulations. OFAC publishes this information about civil penalties imposed and informal settlements on a routine basis. If the publication falls on a holiday, or if required by an emergency, publication may be postponed to the next reasonably available business day. For further information about Section 501.805, see Federal Register, Volume 68, No. 28, February 11, 2003.

Legal Information and Publication Schedule - Administrative Law Judge Hearings
OFAC’s civil penalty administrative hearing process is underway. OFAC has retained the services of administrative law judges to conduct hearings on Cuban and other TWEA embargo civil penalty cases. The hearing procedures being followed in these cases are set forth in OFAC’s Reporting, Procedures and Penalties Regulations (“RPPR”), 31 CFR Part 501, published in the Federal Register on September 11, 2003 (68 FR 53640), a copy of which is available on www.treas.gov/ofac. The RPPR revise OFAC’s administrative penalty procedures previously sited in 31 CFR Parts 500 and 515.