On Monday, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) published on its website the minutes of the June 19th meeting of the Defense Trade Advisory Group, and attached to those minutes was a draft of the proposed implementing rules for…
Last week Lockheed-Martin agreed to pay $4 million in fines arising from (1) a proposal it made to the UAE for the sale of Hellfire missiles without providing prior notice of the proposal to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls…
As previously reported on this blog, Syriatel, Syria’s largest provider of mobile phone service, was recently put on the Specially Designated Nationals (“SDN”) List by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). As a result, U.S. citizens are prohibited from…
ABOVE: Nickel Production in Cuba The latest release by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of recent civil penalty cases reports that Minxia Non-Ferrous Metals, Inc., remitted $1,198,000 to settle allegations that between 2003 and 2006 it purchased or…
Application of country-based sanctions in cyberspace may pose some interesting problems and pitfalls as two cases recently reported by the Office of Foreign Assets Control illustrate: One individual has agreed to a settlement totaling $840 for alleged violation of the…