Behind PayPal’s Foreign Assets Violations

In 2009, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) blacklisted an individual named Kursad Zafer Cire. Mr. Cire was believed to have run a network that facilitated the sale of nuclear technologies to countries such as Iran, Libya, and North Korea. He was a known bad actor. But from October 2009 to April 2013, PayPal continued to allow payments to be made to Mr. Read More