It started simply enough. A small, U.K.-based agricultural consultant, Fertecon, took a check for £7,156 to its banker, Lloyds, and asked them to cash it. Lloyds refused. The reason? The check came from Cuba. Once bitten, twice shy, it would…
ABOVE: Thomas McGuinn An excellent article by Justin Blum on the U.S. investigation of the Irish company Mac Aviation appeared today on Bloomberg News. I have previously reported here and here on the pending indictments of Mac Aviation and its…
Earlier this month the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) imposed a ten-year denial order on Alphatronx, Inc. on the ground that the company was related to Joseph Pinquet who had been convicted of violating the Arms Export Control Act…
A criminal complaint recently filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California accuses David Zhang and Nicola Huang with exporting controlled analog to digital conversion technology to China without a required license from the Bureau…
Last Friday the White House notified Congress that it intended to waive the arms embargo to permit the temporary export of C-130 cargo transport aircraft to China. The waiver was granted at the request of an unnamed European company that…