U.S. Treasury sanctions Sudan war procurement and recruitment networks

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Highlights

U.S. Treasury sanctioned eight individuals and entities, including Sudan-based TMAC and India-based SBL Energy Limited, for supplying materiel to Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces under Executive Order 14098.
Sanctions target Panama-based Talent Bridge S.A. and associates for recruiting former Colombian military for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces through disguised corporate structures, following earlier U.S. action in December 2025 and April 2026.
All U.S.-linked property of designated persons is now blocked, and financial institutions globally risk penalties or secondary sanctions for dealings with listed parties or for evasion attempts.

Sanctions target supply chains and recruiters

As reported by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on eight individuals and entities linked to networks that procure materiel for the Sudanese Armed Forces and recruit foreign fighters for the Rapid Support Forces under Executive Order 14098.

Treasury says the measures are meant to disrupt channels that help both sides prolong the war. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent says the administration is committed to advancing a lasting peace in Sudan, while calling for an immediate, unconditional three-month humanitarian truce and for external actors to stop providing financial and military support to the warring parties.

On the procurement side, OFAC says Sudan-based Target Multiactivities Company Ltd., or TMAC, is controlled by the Defense Industries System through Giad Industrial Group and has imported explosives and related materiel into Sudan from Egyptian and Indian companies. Treasury also names India-based SBL Energy Limited and its chief executive officer, Alok Choudhari, saying SBL has supplied TMAC with more than 200 shipments of explosives-related materiel since 2024, while Ports Engineering Company LTD is accused of importing uniforms, footwear and weapons-related supplies for Sudanese state-linked interests.

OFAC also adds Tariq Hussain Muhammad Madani, TMAC's managing director, to the sanctions list. Treasury says the designations follow earlier U.S. action against the Defense Industries System and Giad on June 1, 2023.

Broader implications for financial institutions

Treasury also expands action against a Colombian-linked recruitment network that it says has sent former Colombian military personnel to fight in Sudan for the RSF. The department says Panamanian nationals Enrique Daniel Palacios Quintanilla and Jack Peter Derman Guzman, along with Colombian national Fredy Alejandro Lopez Ocampo, held official roles at Talent Bridge S.A., a Panama-based company allegedly used to obscure links to the recruitment operation.

The department says it had already acted against the wider network in December 2025 and April 2026, including retired Colombian military officer Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra and Claudia Viviana Oliveros Forero. Treasury says Talent Bridge, formerly Global Staffing S.A., was used to reduce legal exposure for Colombia-based International Services Agency and to conceal connections with the company hiring Colombian fighters.

Under the sanctions, all property and interests in property of designated persons that are in the U.S. or under the control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. Treasury says entities owned 50% or more by blocked persons are also blocked, and warns that U.S. persons, non-U.S. persons and financial institutions can face civil or criminal penalties, or secondary sanctions exposure, for transactions involving designated parties or conduct that evades U.S. restrictions.

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