Key Notes:
- Persons, including non-U.S. persons, providing accounting, trust and corporate formation, and management consulting services in Russia may be added to the SDN List.
- U.S. persons are prohibited from providing these same services to Russian persons unless the recipient of the services is the subsidiary of a U.S. person.
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued a Determination under Section 1(a)(i) under Executive Order (EO) 14071 which states that persons operating in the accounting, trust and corporate formation services, and management consulting sectors of the Russian economy may be subject to sanctions, including blocking designations. See Thompson Hine SmarTrade Update of April 7, 2022 for more information on EO 14071. This action follows previous determinations which allowed sanctions against Russian entities operating in the aerospace, marine, electronics, financial services, technology, and defense and related materiel sectors of the Russian economy.