The Office of Foreign Assets Control is an agency works under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, US. To administer and enforce economic and trade sanctions is the work of this agency. These are the sanctions that are imposed for foreign policy and national security goals. Each and every business company and organizations have to follow these sanctions strictly. OFAC maintain and publishes a SDN list (Specially Designated Nationals list). This list includes the names of individuals and organizations which are prohibited to do business with any business or financial company based in US. These are individuals, groups and organizations are prohibited from doing business with. Actually, the list contains names of terrorist organizations, individual terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and North Korea which are abandoned to do business and deal with all US based companies.
There are cases seen when individuals, organizations or groups are listed mistakenly. If anyone gets to know that his or his organization or group has been listed wrongly in SDN list, he must not waste time and should apply for OFAC SDN List removal for his name as soon as possible. OFAC SDN List Removal is not an easy matter in fact all matters related to OFAC are very complicated. And people need to approach lawyer or attorney who is highly experienced and has a specialized knowledge to handle such cases.