ANZ Bank, Australia’s third largest bank, recently agreed to pay to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) a fine of $5.75 million to settle allegations that the bank had engaged in transactions in Sudan and Cuba in violation of…
Last week a federal district court in Ohio ruled that OFAC violated the Fourth Amendment rights of KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. when it blocked the charity’s assets after a provisional finding that the charity was providing material support…
Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) proposed changes in the Commerce Control List to impose new export controls on devices designed for human execution, certain restraint devices, law enforcement striking devices, and certain torture devices that weren’t…
Publicly-traded RF Micro Devices, Inc. recently agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) a $190,000 fine to settle charges that it had exported spread spectrum modems covered by ECCN 5A001.b.3 to China without obtaining the required…
Houston-based FMC Technologies recently agreed to pay $610,000 to settle charges that it had exported butterfly valves on 78 occasions without required export licenses from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). This ouch-sized fine, which followed a voluntary disclosure…