Last Updated: January 19, 2026

BLOTO INTERNATIONAL COMPANY

Aliases

BLOTO INTERNATIONAL, LTD.; BLUTO INTERNATIONAL; PLUTO-DUBAI TRADING COMPANY, LLC

Address

Iraq; 131/13 Soi 7/1 Sukhumvit Road, Wattana, Bangkok, Thailand; 131/13 Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey Neua sub-district, Wattana District; Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Official reason

Information available to the U.S. Government indicates that Bloto International Company (Bloto) was a Bangkok-based trading company that served as a front for the former IIS. The IIS, headed by Tahir Jalil Habbush Al-Tikriti, a senior official of the former regime previously designated under E.O. 13315 and submitted to the U.N. for listing, was the...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/js1821

Date of listing

2004-08-02

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Executive Order 13315 Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003 Blocking Property of the Former Iraqi Regime, Its Senior Officials and Their Family Members, and Taking Certain Other Actions; Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004 Termination of Emergency Declared in Executive Order 12722 With Respect to Iraq and Modification of Executive Order 1329...

Regime

OFAC country specific

Target State

Iraq

Measures

Blocking Property

Official Information

In response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, the United States imposed comprehensive sanctions, including a trade embargo against Iraq and a freeze of the assets of the then-Iraqi government, which were implemented in the Iraqi Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 575. Over the years, a series of Executive orders adjusted the sancti...

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/7386/download?inlinehttps://ofac.treasury.gov/media/7406/download?inline