Florida resident Yuksel Senbol pleaded guilty on May 8 to conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act, violating ECRA and violating the Arms Export Control Act, among other crimes, for her role in fraudulently procuring contracts to supply the Defense Department with "critical military components," DOJ announced.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Dennis Fitzpatrick, former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, has joined Whiteford as a partner working on national security matters, the firm announced. Whiteford said Fitzpatrick has experience with proceedings on export controls, sanctions evasion, money laundering and bribery.
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Sullivan & Cromwell last week announced that it's creating a national security practice focusing on economic sanctions, anti-money laundering laws, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, foreign investment regulations, export controls and import restrictions.
Houston residents Muzzamil Zaidi and Asim Mujtaba Naqvi pleaded guilty last week for their role in a scheme to send money to Iran without permission from the Office of Foreign Assets Control, DOJ announced.
The presumption of foreign state control in antidumping duty cases doesn't disappear after the exporter presents "minimal contradictory evidence," the government said in a reply brief on May 1 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Contrary to claims made by exporters Aeolus Tyre Co. and Guizhou Tyre Co., the government said, the Commerce Department "has long required respondents to demonstrate autonomy with respect to" all four criteria used to assess freedom from foreign state control, even for companies only minority-owned by a government entity (Guizhou Tyre Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-2163).
DOJ on May 1 filed a forfeiture action against "a set of aircraft landing gear for a Boeing 737-800" CBP detained in Miami in September, the agency announced. The gear was bought to benefit a Kyrgyzstan-based transshipper of dual-use items "servicing" Russia, "in violation of U.S. economic sanctions."
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Brooklyn, New York, resident Nikolay Grigorev pleaded guilty April 30 for his role in a scheme to illicitly export electronic components from the U.S. to companies linked to the Russian military, DOJ announced.