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…
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…
Donald Wayne Hatch, the owner of Rigel Optics, an online distributor of Russian night vision equipment, entered into a plea agreement yesterday in connection with an indictment that alleged that he had illegally exported night vision equipment without a license.…
ABOVE: Tomoaki Iishiba Captain Tomoaki Iishiba, stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State, has been charged in connection with his shipment of sixty EoTech 553 night-vision-compatible holographic rifle sights to Japan without obtaining the required export license. Prior to these…
New-Jersey-based Advanced Orientation Systems entered into a settlement agreement with the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) pursuant to which it agreed to pay a $31,500 to settle charges that it shipped 11 “tiltometers” to Mayrow General Trading Company in…