The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on eight individuals and entities linked to procurement and recruitment networks that fuel Sudan’s civil war.
These networks have enabled both sides — the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — to expand the scale and intensity of the conflict. The ongoing violence has also created conditions that allow for terrorist groups to grow, posing threats to the security and interests of the United States.
“The Trump Administration is committed to advancing a lasting peace in Sudan and bringing an end to the conflict,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said. “The networks profiting from the conflict in Sudan jeopardize the prospects for the humanitarian truce that the Sudanese people desperately need.”
The Defense Industries System (DIS), Sudan’s largest defense enterprise, supports and maintains the SAF’s arsenal of arms, ammunition, vehicles, and material, often acquired from Iran and other external backers. DIS controls numerous subsidiaries, including the Sudanese conglomerate, Giad Industrial Group (Giad)—also known as Sudan Master Technology—through complex and opaque structures from which DIS has generated billions of dollars.
Target Multiactivities Company Ltd. (TMAC) is a Sudan-based company controlled by DIS through Giad. With senior DIS officer Tariq Hussain Muhammad Madani (Madani) serving as managing director, TMAC has imported explosives and related material into Sudan from Egyptian and Indian companies, including India-based explosives manufacturer, SBL Energy Limited (SBL). These explosives are subsequently used in bombs deployed by the SAF. SBL, whose chief executive officer is Indian national Alok Choudhari (Choudhari), has supplied TMAC with over 200 shipments of explosives and explosives-related materiel since 2024.
As a result of this action, all property and interests in property of the designated or blocked persons mentioned above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. Violations of U.S. sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on U.S. and foreign persons.