WASHINGTON:

The United States blacklisted four men and their companies based in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, for purported ties to an organization accused of laundering money for drug traffickers and Chinese, Colombian and Mexican crime groups.

Among them was Pakistani national Obaid Khanani, whose father Altaf Khanani was arrested by US authorities in September 2015 and accused by the US Treasury Department of laundering billions of dollars for the Taliban and other groups.