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Weekly Roundup: OFAC Blacklists Petro, Trump Pardons Zhao, and More

The Office of Foreign Assets Control added Colombian President Gustavo Petro to the U.S. list of specially designated nationals Friday after the White House accused the head of state of allowing cocaine production and trafficking to flourish under his watch. More and More President Donald Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, a supporter of the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventures, two years after he pleaded guilty to failing to have effective controls in place against illicit finance, the Associated Press reported. More The Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, removed South Africa, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mozambique from a "gray list" of nations...

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