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Italian Company Pays Big Over Telecommunications Transfer to Syria

An Italian company agreed to pay $100,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security after BIS discovered the company knowingly exported U.S.-origin network monitoring equipment to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment without authorization. Area S.p.A. sold a Central Monitoring System to…

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the telecommunications company in February 2011, BIS said in a Sept. 17 statement.