A few weeks ago, the attendance of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at the Munich Security Conference led to a little brouhaha when German fuel companies, worried about U.S. sanctions on Iran, indicated that they would not be able to…
Back on November 17, the South Koreans seized KOTI, a Panamanian-registered ship that was suspected of transferring oil in mid-ocean to a North Korean ship. That didn’t stop the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) from adding the vessel (and…
Today OFAC designated one individual, 27 shipping companies and 28 ships that it asserts have been involved in circumventing sanctions against North Korea, principally by engaging in ship-to-ship transfers where prohibited goods are transferred in mid-ocean to North Korean vessels…
Last week a criminal indictment against Arkansas resident Scott Douglas Browning was unsealed after he was arrested on a number of charges including receiving property stolen from Fort Bragg, possessing testosterone and oxycodone, and exporting image intensification tubes and a…
ABOVE: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov UFO Abductee Things have not been going particularly well for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess Federation. First, he was abducted by aliens. Then he was designated by OFAC under Executive Order 13582 for “materially assisting…