The U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday that it charged Li Fangwei, a Chinese national, with violating U.S. sanctions against Iran as well as with federal fraud violations. Li, also known by a panoply of aliases including Karl Lee, Sunny…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) yesterday added thirteen companies to the Entity List as part of new sanctions against Russia. Many of these companies are connected to Gennady Timchenko who was added to the SDN List in the…
The White House just released the latest round of Russia/Ukraine sanctions. Despite much speculation, Gazprom still not on the list, likely because of collateral casualties such a sanction would impose on other non-Russian businesses. Here’s the new list. BELAVENCEV, Oleg…
Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that it whacked Carlson Wagonlit with a massive $5,990,490 fine for doing business in Europe as an American. Specifically, the massive fine was levied because Carlson was involved in arranging travel…
Yesterday the New York Times followed up on its article about the mysterious U.S. plane seen on the runway of an airport in Tehran. According to the follow-up article, the plane was leased by the Bank of Utah by a…