The Washington Post this week reported on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Monday video message reiterating that no company can be “too big” to be “immune from prosecution.” The Post went on to report, as others have, that the Justice…
Yesterday the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it had imposed a $2,809,800 fine on Argentina-based Decolar.com, Inc. Decolar is an online travel agency and attracted the ire of OFAC for booking trips by non-U.S. persons to Cuba,…
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…