A report in Space News reveals that French export officials have prevented export of French-developed flight control software that was intended for the Vega rocket. The Vega rocket, a joint launch vehicle project of the European Space Agency and the…
Yesterday when I posted on the latest release of civil penalty information by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), I promised to do a second post on the $11,000 penalty paid to OFAC by GEICO General Insurance Company (“GEICO”).…
While I was traveling earlier this month, I missed the latest release of civil penalty information by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). Both KLM and Geico were fined. We’ll look at the KLM case today and…
The last four items posted by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) — and which are linked here, here, here, and here) on its list of reported export violations — all involved impositions of export denial orders on individuals…
ABOVE: Nigel Howard Malpass [See update at the end of this post.] Who is Nigel Malpass? Well, for starters, he was elected in 2008 as a local authority commissioner for Ramsey, a hamlet on the Isle of Man, the rogue…