On August 14, 2023, america State Division, the Hard work Division, and the Trade Division issued a trade advisory (“Trade Advisory”) highlighting key dangers for corporations working in South Sudan.
Whilst it does no longer impose new felony duties on corporations, the Trade Advisory highlights the truth that list-based sanctions stay in drive concentrated on sure South Sudanese individuals together with designations underneath america Treasury Division’s Place of business of International Property Regulate’s Specifically Designated Nationals and Blocked Individuals Listing, and america Trade Division’s Bureau of Business and Safety’s Entity Listing. Our prior weblog publish about those dangers will also be reviewed right here.
The Trade Advisory additionally recommends that US monetary establishments proceed to put up suspicious process stories and carry out right kind due diligence on South Sudanese political figures as already required and defined in a 2017 advisory from america Treasury Division’s Monetary Crimes Enforcement Community. Annex 1 and Annex 2 of the Trade Advisory supply an extra assessment of businesses felony and due diligence duties when coping with South Sudan events, together with a focal point on problems associated with compelled exertions in South Sudan.
The Trade Advisory makes a speciality of the next key spaces of shock:
- Executive Tenders: Transparency Global ranked South Sudan as the rustic with the sector’s worst public sector corruption in its 2021 scores of belief of corruption; South Sudan tied for second-worst in 2022.
- Oil and Gold: The Trade Advisory alleges really extensive diversion of earnings from the oil and gold industries to fund illicit actions or bills to govt officers.
- Contracts controlled through governing entities for supply of help: Firms must flag for compliance evaluate pointless charges, engagement with unqualified corporations, and diversion of budget supposed for humanitarian aid.
- Palms, Army Apparatus, and Similar Process: The Trade Advisory cautions corporations towards dealings with South Sudanese defense force because of alleged human rights abuses.
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Terence Gilroy
Terry Gilroy is a spouse within the New York place of work of Baker McKenzie and a member of the Investigations Compliance and Ethics Follow Team. Previous to becoming a member of the Company in 2018, Terry served as Americas Head of the Monetary Crime Criminal serve as at Barclays. Terry advises companies and folks on white collar and fiscal crime problems and has important revel in carrying out investigations in terms of compliance with america International Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and comparable bribery and corruption statutes, financial sanctions rules as administered through america Division of the Treasury’s Place of business of International Property Regulate (OFAC), and the Financial institution Secrecy Act and comparable anti-money laundering (AML) rules and statutes. Terry spent six years on energetic accountability in the USA Military as a Box Artillery officer.
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Alexandre (Alex) Lamy
Alex advises shoppers on compliance with US export controls, business and financial sanctions, export controls (Export Management Rules (EAR); Global Site visitors in Palms Rules (ITAR)) and antiboycott controls. He counsels on and prepares filings to put up to america Executive’s Committee on International Funding in the USA (CFIUS) with appreciate to the purchase of US enterprises through non-US pursuits. Additionally, Alex advises US and non-US corporations within the context of licensing, enforcement movements, interior investigations, compliance audits, mergers and acquisitions and different cross-border transactions, and the design, implementation, and management of compliance methods. He has negotiated enforcement settlements associated with each US sanctions and the EAR.
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Andrea Tovar
Andrea practices world industrial regulation with a focal point on cross-border transactions together with post-acquisition integration IP migrations and generation licensing. She additionally advises corporations on export controls, sanctions, customs and world company compliance. Andrea additionally has an energetic professional bono apply, together with serving to organizations with world constitutional issues and sufferers of home abuse.
