The U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") designated numerous Russian operatives for interfering in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, cyber-hacking the World Anti-Doping Agency and other malign activities.
The designations, made pursuant to the Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions Act, include a former officer of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate ("GRU") for acting on behalf of sanctioned energy sector oligarch Oleg Deripaska; entities and individuals related to "Project Lakhta," a Russian effort to interfere in elections worldwide; nine additional members of the GRU for cyber-hacking into U.S. elections; four members of the GRU for cyber-hacking into the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and other international nonpolitical organizations; and two GRU officers for their roles in a nerve agent attack in England in March 2018. OFAC noted that, to date, the Trump administration has sanctioned over 270 Russia-related persons and entities for a variety of different malign activities.
All property and interests in the property of these individuals subject to U.S. jurisdiction are now blocked, and U.S. persons generally are prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
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