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OKX founder Star Xu said on Nov 7 that MEXC-sourced USDT is being flagged and frozen on deposit — on both TRC20 and ERC20 — and asked users not to route funds through OKX.
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Treasury's OFAC designated eight Canadian MSBs on November 6 under E.O. 13902 for moving crypto to sanctioned Iranian exchanges, naming six Tron addresses.
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Treasury on Nov 5 sanctioned 45 more targets tied to Cambodia-based Prince Group — 4 individuals and 41 offshore entities under E.O. 13581 — plus one scam-network leader under E.O. 13694.
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OFAC sanctioned 10 individuals and the Russia-based FFTDC on Oct 28 over DPRK IT-worker crypto flows. Named intermediaries include Boykov ($3.5M) and Obertas (~$2M).
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Days before Israel's Oct 27 election, the Bank of Israel said crypto 'cannot serve as a means of circumventing sanctions,' and 109 economists signed a letter against the Channel 10 proposal.
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In a Channel 10 interview on Oct 23, four days before Israel's election, Netanyahu confirmed he requested a blockchain plan to work around possible banking sanctions.
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Tokyo added the Moscow-based crypto exchange to its Ukraine-war asset-freeze list on October 2, 18 months after US and EU action; DOJ previously tagged Garantex to $96B in flow.
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US Treasury designated the A7 Network as a transnational criminal organization on Oct 1 and blocked its A7A5 ruble stablecoin, naming it as the pipe for $17B in sanctions-evasion flows used by Iran.
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Blumenthal's PSI report finds 84% of 846 sanctioned Iran-linked wallets used USDT and asks Treasury and DOJ for an update by October 9.
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OFAC added 134 wallets tied to ISIS-K to the SDN list on July 1: 131 TRON, 3 Monero. Tether froze the TRON balances within hours; the Monero side stays out of reach.