WASHINGTON, June 27 (ANI) — The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on eight individuals and entities, including an Indian national and a Chhattisgarh-based explosives manufacturer, over their alleged involvement in procurement and recruitment networks that Washington says have fueled Sudan’s civil war.
In a statement, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions targeting networks it said have enabled both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to sustain and intensify the conflict, exacerbating what it described as one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises.
Among those sanctioned are Indian national Alok Choudhari, chief executive officer of SBL Energy Limited, based in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, and the company itself.
According to the Treasury Department, SBL Energy supplied explosives and explosives-related materials to Sudan-based Target Multiactivities Company Ltd. (TMAC), a company controlled by Sudan’s Defence Industries System (DIS) through the Giad Industrial Group, both of which had previously been sanctioned by the United States.
The Treasury further alleged that the explosives supplied by SBL Energy were later used in bombs deployed by the Sudanese Armed Forces.
“SBL, whose chief executive officer is Indian national Alok Choudhari, has supplied TMAC with more than 200 shipments of explosives and explosives-related materiel since 2024,” the statement said.
OFAC designated SBL Energy under Executive Order 14098 for allegedly providing material support to TMAC, while Choudhari was sanctioned in his capacity as the company’s chief executive officer.
The sanctions package also includes Sudan-based companies Target Multiactivities Company Ltd. and Ports Engineering Company Ltd., Sudanese national Tariq Hussain Muhammad Madani, and three individuals from Panama and Colombia who are allegedly linked to a recruitment network accused of facilitating the deployment of former Colombian military personnel to fight for the RSF.
Following the announcement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration remains committed to advancing peace in Sudan.
“The networks profiting from the conflict in Sudan jeopardize the prospects for the humanitarian truce that the Sudanese people desperately need,” Bessent said.
The United States also called on the SAF and the RSF to accept an immediate, unconditional three-month humanitarian truce and urged external actors to halt all financial and military support to the parties involved in the conflict.
Under the sanctions, all property and interests in property belonging to the designated individuals and entities that are located in the United States or under the control of U.S. persons are blocked. U.S. persons are also generally prohibited from engaging in transactions involving the sanctioned individuals and entities. (ANI)
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