According to this article in the New York Times, the Obama administration announced today more easing of the sanctions against Syria, stating that it would begin expedited case-by-case consideration of export licenses to Syria: The move will particularly affect “requests…
ABOVE: Orionair BAe 146-300 Back in May, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a Temporary Denial Order against Spanish airline Orionair in connection with a pending export of two aircraft owned by Orionair to Syrian airline Syrian Pearl.…
Country-based sanctions start to get leaky in the age of the Internet. How does a software download service know whether or not it’s providing a service to an individual in a sanctioned country? A blogger at PBS’s Mediashift Blog notes…
As previously reported on this blog, Syriatel, Syria’s largest provider of mobile phone service, was recently put on the Specially Designated Nationals (“SDN”) List by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). As a result, U.S. citizens are prohibited from…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today continued its cage match with Rami Makhluf, the maternal cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and owner of Syriatel, Syria’s largest mobile phone provider. Previously, OFAC has designated Makhluf as an SDN…