Dozens of apps for companies put under sanctions by the U.S. government have remained available in app stores maintained by Apple and Google, a violation of the law according to legal experts.

The apps are associated with accused malefactors including Russian banks blacklisted after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a Chinese construction company in repressive Xinjiang and a Houthi-linked bank in Yemen.

The organizations and individuals are on the Treasury Department's roster of Specially Designated Nationals, a designation that prohibits American companies from doing business with them. The Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit advocacy group, assembled the list of apps using automated searches and confirmed the results manually. TTP shared it in advance of publication with The Washington

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