DEMOCRATIC KAREN BENEVOLENT ARMY

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 1 authority: OFAC. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & controlRecords found4 designated individuals recorded in connection with this company: Sai Kyaw HLA, Saw STEEL, Saw Sein WIN.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• JurisdictionRecords foundMyanmar is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section I: “High-risk third countries which have provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies and have developed an action plan with FATF.” The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• OFACActive

  CYBER4

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  BURMA-EO14014

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

No corporate ownership records on file for this company. Ownership is recorded only where a register or a designating authority publishes it, and coverage is thin for companies outside the jurisdictions with open beneficial-ownership registers.

Legal name

DEMOCRATIC KAREN BENEVOLENT ARMY

Also known as

DEMOCRATIC KAREN BENEVOLENT ARMY · DEMOCRATIC KAREN BUDDHIST ARMY BRIGADE 5 · DEMOCRATIC KAREN BUDDHIST ARMY · KLO HTOO BAW BATTALION +5

Jurisdiction

MM

First recorded here

28 Aug 2026

1. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Saw San AUNG

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

2. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Saw Sein WIN

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Saw STEEL

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Sai Kyaw HLA

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Sanction listed: OFAC — CYBER4

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

6. Sanction listed: OFAC — BURMA-EO14014

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

No corporate ownership records on file. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of a simple structure — see the risk breakdown, where the ownership component is left unscored for exactly this reason.

None recorded with a stated ownership stake or control method.

Nothing to draw: this company has no recorded links to another company on file.

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

• Fact

  democratic karen benevolent army

  Legal name

  Evidence

  55508

  Read 28 Aug 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  MM

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  55508

  Read 13 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — CYBER4

  Designation

  Evidence

  55508

  Read 28 Aug 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — BURMA-EO14014

  Designation

  Evidence

  55508

  Read 28 Aug 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

15 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.