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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
12/31/2008 PDF icon 4 33,824



11/25/2008 PDF icon 5 22,806



11/03/2008 PDF icon 4 47,087



09/29/2008 PDF icon 7 23,101



08/28/2008 PDF icon 10 19,148



07/31/2008 PDF icon 19 1,927,332



06/20/2008 PDF icon 11 192,962



05/29/2008 PDF icon 12 836,675



04/11/2008 PDF icon 8 20,920



6 27,398



11 244,180



7 109,100



Year to date totals:
99 3,504,533
Civil Penalties Chart
magnifying glass  icon What related guidance does OFAC have on its enforcement policies?
  Does OFAC publish Enforcement Guidelines?
    OFAC Enforcement Guidelines PDF icon
 
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
    OFAC Risk Matrix (for the Securities Sector as of November 2008) 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
    Civil Penalties - Revised Interim Policy (October. 28, 2008) PDF icon
    Civil Penalties - Interim Policy (Nov. 27, 2007) 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 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 29251-06 PDF icon - revised regulations to reflect amendments to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) made by the Combating Terrorism Financing Act of 2005.
    73 FR 32650-08 PDF icon - Final Rule amending civil penalty provisions in 17 parts of the regulations OFAC administers, specifically those for which the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) provides civil penalty authority
    73 FR 51933-08 PDF icon - OFAC's Enforcement Guidelines
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.