OFAC Sanctions Colombian Network Recruiting for Sudanese Civil War
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned four people and four entities for their roles in recruiting and training former Colombian soldiers to fight for the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces in that country's ongoing civil war.
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The designations target Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra, a retired Colombian military officer based in the United Arab Emirates; Bogota-based International Services Agency (A4SI), which recruits Colombians; and Quijano’s wife, Colombian national Claudia Viviana Oliveros Forero, who owns and manages the company. OFAC also sanctioned Panama-based Global Staffing S.A., now Talent Bridge, S.A., to "minimize A4SI’s legal exposure and obfuscate the links between A4SI and the company hiring the Colombian fighters," as well as Bogota-based employment agency Maine Global Corp S.A.S., which is owned by Colombian-Spanish national Mateo Andres Duque Botero.
OFAC also said Colombian national Monica Munoz Ucros is Maine Global's "alternate manager" and the manager of Bogota-based Comercializadora San Bendito, which carried out wire transfers with a U.S. company "associated with Duque and directly with Duque."