Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved legislation that would expand the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996. Under the proposed legislation (H.R. 957), sanctions provided under the Iran Sanctions Act could also be imposed on U.S.…
One of the things that SCP Global Technologies got in trouble for according to the Settlement Agreement released today by BIS was shipping spare parts without a license that were not eligible for License Exception RPL. According to the charging…
BIS will send you, if you ask, an email notifying you of updates to the BIS website. Today I received one of the odder of such notices: In the matter of the denial order of Ihsan Elashi, et. al., the…
OFAC just released its monthly exercise in non-disclosure, recounting — in as little detail as possible — penalty actions undertaken by OFAC in the previous month. A Cuba vacationer, a guy who purchased a few Cuban stogies over the Internet,…
In all the hubbub about the SEC fining El Paso for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act through bribes paid in connection with the Oil for Food program, there has been little mention that OFAC was also part of the…