The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control recently released its 23rd Terrorist Assets Report. As of December 2014, terrorist assets blocked in the United States totaled $21.8 million. These blocked funds belong to, or is controlled by, terror groups including al-Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah.
The report also includes blocked funds and non-blocked funds related to Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria, which the report identifies as “state sponsors of terrorism.” OFAC identified $2.4 billion in assets in the U.S. as belonging to state sponsors of terrorism, with $35 million of that amount representing non-blocked assets of individuals and entities located in Iran and Syria.
