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On July 2, OFAC targeted four transnational criminal groups pursuant to E.O. 13581: the Camorra, the Yakuza, the Brothers’ Circle, and Mara Salvatrucha.
On July 2, OFAC targeted four transnational criminal groups
pursuant to E.O. 13581: the Camorra, the Yakuza, the Brothers'
Circle, and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). The new designations included
seven members of the Camorra, one of Europe's largest criminal
organizations; the Kudo-kai, a violent syndicate
within the Japanese Yakuza criminal network, along with two of its
leaders; an individual known to act on behalf of the Brothers'
Circle, a large multi-ethnic Eurasian criminal network; and one
member of MS-13, a criminal street gang that operates
internationally. The Camorra, the Yakuza, and the Brothers'
Circle were identified as transnational criminal organizations in
the Annex to E.O. 13581 on July 24, 2011, while MS-13 was
designated on October 11, 2012.
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