Designation timeline
Sanctions are dynamic instruments. Parties get added, removed, modified, and re-designated over time. For LAZARUS GROUP, the timeline of relevance includes the original designation date, any programme additions or removals, aliases added through subsequent notices, and — if applicable — a delisting or modification history.
The AJG sanctions catalogue tracks the issuing authority's publication history through periodic resyncs. Each sync captures a point-in-time snapshot of the source list. Comparison across snapshots yields the delta history: added parties, removed parties, changed programme scopes, and updated identifying information. For v88.2, the snapshot date reflects the last ingestion run; v88.3 (OFAC ingestion pipeline) will add full delta tracking as a scheduled operation.
Source list: OFAC SDN
Issuing authority: US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Programmes: DPRK3, CYBER2
Last AJG sync: June 30, 2026
Why timeline matters
For compliance purposes, the designation date anchors a lookback window for any transactions involving the designated party. For screening providers, the delta feed drives re-screening triggers against active counterparty books. For affected parties, the delisting procedure starts from the original designation date and follows a regime-specific petitioning pathway. For researchers, the timeline of additions reveals policy direction — designations cluster around geopolitical events, and reading the list chronologically is a shorthand history of external-relations policy.
This timeline view is currently a snapshot-level summary. Future batches (queued as residuals) will extend it with per-amendment history when the underlying source feed publishes that detail. OFAC in particular publishes "Recent Actions" daily, which can be ingested to maintain an AJG-side audit log of changes.