Last Updated: January 19, 2026

15 KHORDAD FOUNDATION

Aliases

OJSC SVETLOGORSK KHIMVOLOKNO; SVETLOGORSKKHIMVOLKNO OAO; OTKRYTOE AKTSIONERNOE OBSHCHESTVO SVETLOGORSKKHIMVOLOKNO; SOHIM

Nationality

Belarus

Address

d. 5, Nezhiloe Pomeshchenie, Ul. Zavodskaya, Svetlogorsk, 247439, Belarus

Reg. ID

400031289, Tax ID No.

Official reason

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against the 15 Khordad Foundation, an Iran-based foundation that has issued a multi-million-dollar bounty for the killing of prominent Indian-born, British-American author Salman Rushdie. Since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s order pronouncing a death sent...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1059

Date of listing

2022-09-30

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Executive Order 14038 Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the Situation in Belarus

Regime

OFAC country specific

Target State

Belarus

Measures

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry, Trade sanctions

Official Information

E.O. 14038. On August 9, 2021, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), issued E.O. 14038. In E.O. 14038, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in E.O. 13405, finding that the Belarusian regime's harmful activities and long-s...

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/27/2023-06170/belarus-sanctions-regulations