OFAC Sanctions Nicaraguan Attorney General
The Office of Foreign Assets Control last week sanctioned Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, Nicaragua’s attorney general, for her ties to corruption as part of President Daniel Ortega’s government. OFAC said she has helped the government “steal” real property from independent…
media outlets, international organizations and political prisoners, under law “explicitly to suppress freedom of association.” Morales Urbina does this by giving existing property deeds to new owners declaring properties as “now being made for public use,” the agency said.