# 2025-11018: Treasury Blocks Mexican National Over Drug Trafficking and Terrorism Links

2025-11018, Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action, is a Federal Register notice from Treasury Department, Foreign Assets Control Office published 2025-06-16, effective 2025-06-09; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-02).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11018
- As of: 2026-11-02
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11018
- Title: Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Treasury Department; Foreign Assets Control Office
- Citation: 90 FR 25427
- Published: 2025-06-16
- Effective: 2025-06-09
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-02

## In one line

Treasury Blocks Mexican National Over Drug Trafficking and Terrorism Links

## Summary

The U.S. Treasury’s OFAC just blocked Victor Manuel Barraza Pablos, a Mexican national linked to drug trafficking and terrorism. This means all his U.S.-based assets are frozen, and Americans can’t do business with him. The action took effect on June 9, 2025, signaling serious financial consequences for anyone connected to him.

## Abstract

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.

## Effects PRIA read

- Designated persons' U.S. property blocked: cost, medium. On June 9, 2025, OFAC added multiple named individuals and entities (including Victor Manuel Barraza Pablos) to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List. All property and interests in property of those listed that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. perso…
- Listed entries flagged with secondary sanctions risk: cost, medium. The notice lists certain entries with the label 'Secondary sanctions risk: section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as amended by Executive Order 13886.' For entries so marked, the action invokes that secondary-sanctions provision as part of the designation on June 9, 2025.

## Related documents

- [2026-21944](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21944): Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action, 2026-10-28
- [2026-21733](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21733): Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action, 2026-10-26
- [2026-21423](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21423): Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions, 2026-10-20
- [2026-21398](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21398): Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action, 2026-10-20
- [2026-21445](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21445): Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action, 2026-10-20
- [2026-21212](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21212): Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action, 2026-10-16

## Sources
- [2025-11018 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/16/2025-11018/notice-of-ofac-sanctions-action)
- [2025-11018 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-16/pdf/2025-11018.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11018 (as of 2026-11-02).