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US OFAC press releases that provide context and details related to sanctioned entities.
This dataset includes press releases from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). They provide background, rationale, and enforcement context for sanctions actions, offering insight into the measures and the entities involved.
This dataset contains entities from a larger database that is used to enrich the data in OpenSanctions with additional details and connections. We only include entities from the source where there is a relevant connection to the entities in the main OpenSanctions database (e.g. to a sanctions target or a politician).
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| Publisher: | Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) · United States OFAC is a divison of the United States Department of the Treasury that administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States. | ||||||||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default | ||||||||||||
| Information: | ofac.treasury.gov | ||||||||||||
| Tags: | juris.us · issuer.west | ||||||||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: daily | ||||||||||||
| Last processed: | 2025-12-17 16:05:32 · v. 20251217160532-rlx | ||||||||||||
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You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.