sanctioned
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In 2024, Treasury sanctioned Ly Yong Phat, a Cambodian senator and tycoon, for alleged human-rights abuses of scam workers in a casino resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border owned by one of his companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
He hopes regulators ensure that those that don’t are properly sanctioned.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Treasury sanctioned al-Jamal’s crypto wallets in 2024 for funneling $178 million proceeds from illicit Iranian oil sales to the Houthis.
From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026
Attorney Jeanine Pirro, told the Journal this week that it was working to go after sanctioned and hostile networks supporting the Iranian regime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
He raises the truck’s aerial, puts on the headset, and scans the spectra, trying to find anything that is not sanctioned.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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