Jonathan Greig reports:
The Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned five people and one entity tied to the Intellexa Consortium – a notorious holding company responsible for the Predator spyware.
The company was sanctioned last year and again in March but senior administration officials told reporters on Monday that more was needed to target the company’s “opaque web of corporate entities, which are designed to avoid accountability.”
The senior official said Intellexa Consortium has taken a range of steps since the initial sanctions to move money around and to continue selling the Predator spyware through other holding companies.
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