A federal court recently upheld, in OKKO Business v. Lew, a decision by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) to refuse to unblock funds sent by a Ukrainian company as an auction deposit for an auction conducted by a…
ABOVE: Robert Mugabe The Zimbabwe Herald, the alleged newspaper and confirmed propaganda organ of the sanctioned Mugabe regime, is all excited by the launch of the China International Payment System (CIPS). The system, which was launched earlier this month, seeks…
Yesterday Senator Cory Gardner introduced S.2144, entitled the “North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act.” (The official text of the proposed bill is not yet available at congress.gov but a discussion draft can be found here.) Not surprisingly, the new bill seems…
As discussed here in a previous post, the proposed definition of “public domain” by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has a Catch-22. Information that is in the “public domain,” i.e. information that has been published on the Internet…
The NBC affiliate in Miami on September 29 issued an “investigative report” with the title “Millions of Dollars Sent to Cubans Abroad Being Blocked by U.S. Government.” It starts as follows: As the U.S. continues to ease sanctions against Cuba,…