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OFAC Sanctions ISIS Operators for Financing Terror Group with Crypto
On June 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three individuals and six entities for facilitating financial transactions on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The enforcement action targets financial infrastructure that helped individuals across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa move crypto to ISIS. The sanctions hit Bitcoin Xchange, a Syria-based money services business established in late 2020 by Abdelhakim Boukich, a former Dutch national and extremist financial facilitator, and associates. According to OFAC, “Boukich and Bitcoin ... (full story)
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