According to this AP wire story, two men in Florida were charged with violating the Cuban Sanctions Regulations by applying for Cuba travel licenses using “fake” religious organizations. Prosecutors charged that the two men then sold these licenses to travel…
BIS just posted additional information on voluntary self disclosures on its website, including a slightly edited version of Wendy Wysong’s article (paid subscription required) from the December issue of The Export Practitioner entitled “BIS Data Show Benefits of Voluntary Disclosures.”…
Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved legislation that would expand the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996. Under the proposed legislation (H.R. 957), sanctions provided under the Iran Sanctions Act could also be imposed on U.S.…
One of the things that SCP Global Technologies got in trouble for according to the Settlement Agreement released today by BIS was shipping spare parts without a license that were not eligible for License Exception RPL. According to the charging…
BIS will send you, if you ask, an email notifying you of updates to the BIS website. Today I received one of the odder of such notices: In the matter of the denial order of Ihsan Elashi, et. al., the…