U.S. prosecutors announced today that four members of a Colombian family were indicted by a grand jury on charges that the family attempted to export J85 jet engines from Miami to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo on Iran.…
Last week the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of Zhi Yong Guo for unlicensed exports of thermal imaging cameras in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. According to the facts recited by the Ninth Circuit, Mr. Zhi was…
It’s been a while since this blog has seen one of the infamous press releases from a company announcing that the company has registered with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). A reader today brought to my attention a…
From the department of low-hanging fruit, the topic of today’s post is an enforcement action by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) against Amy Farrow, the sole proprietor of the Wholesale Discount Store of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (pictured right) for…
According to an article in The Herald, the state-controlled newspaper of Zimbabwe, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) refused to unblock $30,000 that a U.K. couple wired to purchase land in Chinhoyi Municipality, Zimbabwe, and that was blocked by…