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October 15, 2024
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US sanctions five Russian entities for facilitating illicit transactions to DPRK

Treasury also designated one individual in sanctions targeting North Korea’s WMD program and Moscow’s war in Ukraine

The U.S. has slapped sanctions on five entities linked to Russia and one individual for facilitating illicit transactions between Moscow and Pyongyang in a bid to thwart their financial cooperation.

The new sanctions target networks that fund North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, which also support Russia's war in Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a statement Thursday.

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