Olenga v. Gacki

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FRANCOIS OLENGA, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 19-1135 (RDM) ANDREA M. GACKI et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION In 2017, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added Plaintiff François Olenga, a military official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”), to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (“SDN” and “SDN List”), pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”),

50 U.S.C. § 1701

et seq. This designation froze Olenga’s assets subject to U.S. jurisdiction and forbade…