In July this year, crypto exchange Kraken was placed under investigation by the US Treasury Department for alleged violations of sanctions imposed on Iran.
A couple of days ago OFAC officially announced that it had reached an agreement with Kraken to end this matter.
Iran sanctions
For some time now, the US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions against Iran, including sanctions prohibiting the transfer of digital currencies from the US to the Middle Eastern country.
Overall, these are economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions imposed on Iran through the UN Security Council in 2015, although some of them have been in place since 1979 by the United States alone. It is the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department that oversees compliance with these regulations.
In terms of prohibited financial transactions, Iranian financial institutions are prohibited from directly accessing the US financial system, but at first were allowed to do so indir
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