JCK: Diamond Trader Dan Gertler Gets OFAC Sanctions Reprieve

In an unexpected and unannounced decision made during the last week of the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of the Treasury temporarily rescinded the sanctions it had put on Israeli diamond trader Dan Gertler three years earlier.

In December 2017, then-President Trump signed an executive order placing Gertler on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned individuals list, because of his business ties with the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila…

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