Once a Terrorist, Not Always a Terrorist

Ahmed Idris Nasreddin On August 29, 2002, OFAC designated various entities owned by Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, thereby blocking all assets of those entities and forbidding U.S. citizens and companies from dealing with those entities. The basis for the designation was…

Possible Sanctuary for Sanctuary

A battle is being waged over the planned, but allegedly illegal, export of a former U.S. Navy hospital ship M/V Sanctuary. Decommissioned in 1989, the battle certainly isn’t over whether a license should have been obtained from the Directorate of…

Maybe My Dog Ate the Service Copy

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently set aside a default judgment denying export privileges to S.P. Equipamentos de Protecao ao Trabalho Ltda (“SPE”), a Brazilian firm charged with violating U.S. export laws by re-exporting night vision equipment to…

No Cigar!

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) yesterday released its monthly report on penalties imposed by the agency last month. And, for the first time since the invention of the Internet, no one got fined for buying Cohibas over the…