Specially Designated Nationals

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The Specially Designated Nationals list is a publication of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC"), which lists individuals and organizations whose properties are blocked by various sanctions programs administered by OFAC.[1]

Notable blocked organizations on this list include 17 November, Real IRA, Al Qaeda, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Communist Party of Peru and The Central Bank of Iran.

Also included are various names of individuals whose names are blocked, though controversially [2]this has caused some innocent individuals to be unable to perform daily transactions such as wiring money to relatives or opening bank accounts, even though OFAC has a verification hotline[3] to verify that a blocked individual is, in fact, a positive match to the list or not.

The SDN list is part of the U.S. Federal Excluded Parties List System[4], which also includes the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) list.

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  1. ^ http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/sdnlist.txt
  2. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060706/ap_on_bi_ge/emirates_muslim_money
  3. ^ http://www.epls.gov/epls/jsp/FAQ.jsp#24
  4. ^ http://www.epls.gov

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