The Department of Justice announced today an expanded indictment of Sixing “Steve” Liu on additional charges that he violated the Arms Export Control Act through the unauthorized transfer of technical data relating to defense navigation systems. A previous indictment in…
By now you’ve probably read the JPMorgan Chase Bank (“JPMC”) agreed to pay to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) the whopping amount of $88.3 million to settle charges that it violated just about every sanctions program on OFAC’s…
ABOVE: Juan Pablo Roque (left)Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (right) A jilted wife, a Cuban spy, and OFAC: how could this blog ignore a story involving all three at once? Last week a federal district judge in Miami ruled that Ana Margarita…
When I earlier reported on the latest round of Syria sanctions, which now prohibit exportation of services to Syria, I noted that the executive order did not contain typical exceptions for services that are generally permitted in the case of…
Notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is on trial in Manhattan for allegedly conspiring to sell weapons to DEA agents posing as members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, who claimed they intended to use the weapons…