US OFAC Press Releases

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.

Data overview

Entities:
Total21,260
Entity types:
Companies4,281
People3,910
Organizations899
Articles810
Vessels769
Airplanes56
Legal entities50
Countries:
162 countries · Show overview...
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.

Information:ofac.treasury.gov
Source data:ofac.treasury.gov · HTML
Tags:juris.us · issuer.west
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2025-12-07 08:20:02 · v. 20251207082002-cky
Last change:
Warnings:14 Warnings

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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities10.68 MB
names.txtTarget names text file262.25 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format6.03 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON0 B
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV175 B

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