ABOVE: IPSA Phoenix Office Last Thursday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that IPSA International had agreed to pay a fine of $259,200 to settle charges that it violated the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR”) in connection with…
Two companies in Singapore, CSE Global and CSE Transtel, agreed to pay the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) $12,027,066 to settle charges that they violated the Iran Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR”). The charges arose from CSE Transtel supplying…
On Monday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that insurance giant AIG had agreed to pay $148,698 to settle charges that it had insured 555 shipments involving Sudan, Iran and Cuba. Although some of the apparent violations involved…
Yesterday, and only hours after the ISIS attack on Tehran, the Senate voted to invoke cloture by a vote of 91-8 to allow a vote on S.722, the Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017. News reports suggest that further…
Last week I posted on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’s opinion setting aside the $4 million fine that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed on Epsilon Electronics for shipping weapons of mass destruction (namely, subwoofers and other car…