Complicit Dossier

Financial enablers and gatekeepers · lobbying firm · United States

Ballard Partners

  • Commercial or professional counterparty
  • Grade A: Official recordStrongest record: official record
  • 2 documented ties

Also recorded as: Ballard Partners, Inc.; FARA registration 7070; Ballard Partners - receipts confirmed

Registered for the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan (official contact: Counselor Abasher A. Khidir Mohamed) for 'advocacy services relative to U.S.-Republic of Sudan bilateral relations', trade and investment.

Their response

  • n/a

Records

2

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Grade A: Official record

Ballard Partners

registered 2024-10-30; terminated 2025-04-03

Registered for the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan (official contact: Counselor Abasher A. Khidir Mohamed) for 'advocacy services relative to U.S.-Republic of Sudan bilateral relations', trade and investment.

Response
No response located in the sources reviewed.
Sanctions
None found in OFAC SDN / EU / UK lists checked 2026-10-03
  1. 1FARA Exhibit A/B, Ballard Partners - Embassy of the Republic of Sudan · efile.fara.gov · 30 Oct 2024
  2. 2US DOJ FARA bulk data - All Foreign Principals (downloaded 2026-10-03) · efile.fara.gov · 3 Oct 2026
Grade A: Official record

Ballard Partners - receipts confirmed

2024-10-24 to 2025-04-03

Supplemental statements confirm one payment: US$300,000 fee received from the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan on 24 October 2024, 'paid in advance'; nothing further was received before termination on 3 April 2025. Reported activity: outreach to Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff and other Senate offices (Nov 2024), exchanges with a reporter about the engagement, and meeting requests to the NSC's senior director for Middle East and North Africa and its Africa director (11 Mar 2025). Stated purpose: 'enhance U.S.-Sudan bilateral relations, develop trade, investment, and advise on business opportunities'. No disbursements.

Response
n/a
Sanctions
None. Lawful, disclosed representation.
›Research notes

Closes the first-pass gap on Ballard's actual receipts. Four individual lobbyists filed short forms for the account; they are on the public record and are not listed here.

  1. 1FARA: Ballard Partners supplemental statement, six months ending 31 Jan 2025 · efile.fara.gov · 1 Mar 2025
  2. 2FARA: Ballard Partners supplemental statement, six months ending 31 Jul 2025 · efile.fara.gov · 29 Aug 2025

Relationships

3

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Money · 3

Geography

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Based in
United States

Position in the network

Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.

No documented chain links this actor to the SAF.

›Possible links to investigate · 2

  • The Vogel Group, LLC hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Embassy of the Republic of Sudan, Washington).

  • The Williams Group hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Embassy of the Republic of Sudan, Washington).