At the Bureau of Industry and Security’s (“BIS”) Export Control Forum in Newport Beach, California, on March 16, Tony Christino, a senior policy analyst for BIS, announced that a top priority for BIS as the new administration begins is to…
ABOVE: Golden Escrow HQ The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its monthly report on civil penalties today and one case, involving Golden Escrow, Inc., caught our eye. The escrow company was accused of attempting to transfer…
No big news today, so it’s time for another Export Law Blog grab bag: A Swiss court convicted an un-named Czech man for exporting missile-related electronic components to Iran. The man claimed he thought the components were harmless. The court…
ABOVE: Drumcliffe Church In an earlier story, we reported on the arrest of a Tehran-based businessman on charges that, among other things, he exported helicopter engines from the United States to Iran. One of the intermediate consignees for that export…
One of our readers has been monitoring the Lloyd’s Register (subscription required) of shipping vessels and noticed something unusual: bunches of Iranian ships were changing their names. For example, on November 16, 2008, the the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping…