A court in Bangkok this week denied a U.S. request to extradite Jamshid Ghassemi, an Iranian national. Ghassemi had been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Diego in 2006 in connection with an alleged attempt by Ghassemi to…
Actually, the penalty that freight forwarder Demetrios International Shipping recently agreed to pay was only $6,000, but it was for export of two Raptor 100K stun guns to Algeria without a license from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”).…
An article in today’s Miami Herald provides more details about the settlement agreement that we previously reported and under which freight forwarder Cargoland Air and Ocean Cargo, Inc. agreed to pay a fine of $36,000 to the Bureau of Industry…
While some in the export community have charged the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) of being overzealous in their enforcement activities, it is a…
. . . the United Arab Emirates. With the publication today by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) of the additions to the Entity List announced on Wednesday, the UAE moves into first place in terms of the single…