SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS - UPDATED January 17, 2008
The link above will take you to a name search tool of the United States department of Treasury Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list. These are names identified by the government as having a connection to the financing of terrorist activities. If you are providing closing services in a transaction, you should be running searches of the names of persons and entities that are involved in your closings against this database. In the event that you find a match, you should review the full information listing from the Treasury Department website to determine if your person can be eliminated. You can review the full listing in a number of ways:
1. You can review the SDN list in Adobe Acrobat PDF form on the United States Department of the Treasury website:
http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/
Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7.0 allows you to text search this PDF file. If you haven't upgraded to Reader 7.0, the link below will connect you to the Adobe Acrobat Reader download site.
2. You can download and search or print the current version of the SDN list in Adobe Acrobat PDF form here:
The document is approximately 260 pages, and is 3 Mbytes.
3. You can contact Wisconsin Agency at (800) 927-2811 or underwrite@ctt.com for a full search.
If you have a clear match, you should notify the Office of Foreign Assets Control at (800) 540-6322 or the Treasury Department at (866) 556-3974. Under no circumstances are you to disclose to the person whose name appears to be a match that you are making this report.
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