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Myanmar sanctions a tangled web for banks | Global Trade Review (GTR)

Foreign banks cashing in on Myanmar’s brief economic liberalisation are facing new compliance headaches after fresh sanctions were imposed on the military junta, with the sector put on notice over further sanctions targeting the country’s energy and commodities sectors. The US and UK announced co-ordinated sanctions in late March against the military holding companies Myanma Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation Limited (MEC), which the two governments said were enmeshed in broad sectors of the economy including mining, trade, banking, logistics, agriculture and manufacturing. Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup on February 1, claiming irregularities in a January election in which Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy secured an overwhelming victory. The military ruled the country between 1962 and 2011, freeing Suu Kyi from 15 years of house arrest in 2010.

Office of Foreign Assets Control – designation for sanction

April 2, 2021 On March 25, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed additional sanctions in response to the ongoing crisis in Myanmar (also called Burma) by designating the country’s two largest military conglomerates:  (1) Myanmar Economic Holdings Public Company Limited (“MEHL”) and (2) Myanmar Economic Corporation Limited (“MEC”). Because Myanmar’s military controls significant segments of the country’s economy, including trading, natural resources, and consumer goods, through these two companies, these designations are the most consequential sanctions measures that the Biden Administration has taken to-date in response to the situation.

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