Treasury Sanctions Transnational Network Recruiting Colombians to Fight in Sudan’s Civil War

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on four individuals and four entities for their roles in fueling the civil war in Sudan, a conflict that has provoked the world’s worst ongoing humanitarian crisis. This transnational network—primarily composed of Colombian nationals and companies—recruits former Colombian military personnel and trains soldiers, including children, to fight for the Sudanese paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “Treasury is targeting a network that recruits fighters for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF),” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley.