US Charity Sentenced to Probation, Fined for Illegal Export Filings
New Hampshire-headquartered NuDay was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine after it filed false export information, DOJ said Dec. 28. The agency said the five-year probation sentence for NuDay, founded as a nonprofit charity, was the “maximum penalty for an organizational defendant.”
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The organization pleaded guilty in September to filing false information for shipments to Syria by artificially deflating the value of the goods below the $2,500 exporting threshold and falsely declaring the items would be delivered to Turkey (see 2309110031).
NuDay devalued $8.3 million worth of goods to avoid the reporting requirements, said Aaron Tambrini, the acting special agent in charge of the Bureau of Industry and Security's Office of Export Enforcement Boston field office. He also said the shipments may have been eligible for a “limited waiver” that authorizes exports of a “wide range of items necessary to provide humanitarian support to the Syrian people.”