Treasury Sanctions Nicaragua-Based Russian Institution and Gold Companies

WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is targeting the Ortega-Murillo regime’s repression of the Nicaraguan people and its ability to manipulate the gold sector and profit from corrupt operations. Treasury is imposing sanctions on three Nicaragua-based entities, the Training Center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Managua (** RTC**);** Compania Minera Internacional, Sociedad Anónima (COMINTSA); and Capital Mining Investment Nicaragua**,** Sociedad Anónima (Capital Mining)**, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13851, as amended.The RTC is a Nicaragua-based subdivision of the Government of the Russian Federation’s (GOR) Ministry of Internal Affairs, which trains those under the Ortega-Murillo regime’s command under the Russian authoritarian government’s playbook of oppression.