Dennis Rodman and his coterie of NBA All-Stars recently returned to the United States from North Korea after Rodman’s birthday basketball bash for his “friend for life†Kim Jong Un. While Rodman’s zealous zaniness has grabbed global media headlines, another…
The General Court of the European Court of Justice on February 5 set aside the sanctions that the European Union had imposed on Bank Saderat of Iran. (Bank Saderat was blocked in the United States by the Office of Foreign…
This blog reported several weeks ago on a complaint brought by a small British company against Lloyds for refusing to cash a check in pounds sterling that the company had received from a Cuban customer. Lloyds had previously agreed to…
It started simply enough. A small, U.K.-based agricultural consultant, Fertecon, took a check for £7,156 to its banker, Lloyds, and asked them to cash it. Lloyds refused. The reason? The check came from Cuba. Once bitten, twice shy, it would…
The Institute for Science and International Security recently released an interesting report on Germany’s criminal prosecution of Vanaki Mohsen, who was accused of exporting various dual use items to Iran in violation of Germany’s War Weapons Control Act. The prosecution…