US Court Dismisses Challenge to Treasury Sanctions Against Former Afghanistan Officials 

VANCOUVER, CANADA – A Court in Washington D.C. has ruled against a challenge aimed at overturning the sanctions on two former Afghanistan government officials and associated entities.

In its ruling issued last Friday, April 19, the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed appeals brought forth by the former speaker of Afghanistan parliament Mir Rahman Rahmani and his son, Ajmal Rahmani, also a former parliamentarian, who were sanctioned earlier by the US Treasury on charges of transnational corruption and embezzlement.