Haleigh Morgus, a former senior sanctions policy adviser with the Treasury Department, is joining the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as a senior international policy adviser, she announced on LinkedIn. Morgus had worked on sanctions issues at Treasury since 2018.
The U.K. recently fined four exporters more than $2 million combined for breaching the country’s export controls, including one for violating trade restrictions against Russia, the country announced Nov. 4.
The EU will maintain sanctions on 15 individuals and four entities under the North Korea sanctions regime, the European Council announced on Oct. 31. The entities are Pan Systems Pyongyang, Korea Paekho Trading Corp., Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre and Korean People's Army.
South Korea sanctioned 11 people and four entities in response to North Korea's Oct. 31 launch of a long-range ballistic missile, Korea's foreign ministry announced on Nov. 1, according to an unofficial translation. The sanctioned parties are involved in missile development and earning foreign currency for North Korean workers operating abroad. The restrictions will take effect Nov. 6.
A Texas-headquartered offshore drilling company is filing a voluntary disclosure with the Office of Foreign Assets Control after its former Russian subsidiary may have breached U.S. sanctions, according to corporate filings.
Christopher Skinner, former partner at Williams Mullen, has joined ArentFox as a partner in its international trade and investment practice, the firm announced. Skinner's practice will cover export controls and sanctions compliance as well as customs and import regulations.
Dual U.S. and Russian national Vadim Yermolenko pleaded guilty Nov. 1 for his role in a scheme to illegally export controlled dual-use and military items to Russia as part of a Moscow-led sanctions evasion scheme, DOJ said. Yermolenko pled guilty to conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Yermolenko faces up to 30 years in prison.
House Select Committee on China Chairman Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., plans to introduce a bill that would bring the State Department’s “scattered” economic security offices under a new deputy secretary position to help the U.S. compete with China, his office announced Nov. 1.
President Joe Biden extended for one year a national emergency that authorizes certain sanctions related to Iran, the White House said Nov. 1. The White House said "our relations with Iran have not yet normalized," and the sanctions authorities outlined in Executive Order 12170 "must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2024."
Australia on Oct. 30 issued an updated permit that authorizes Australian lawyers and law firms to provide certain legal services to, and collect fees from, parties designated under its Autonomous Sanctions Regulations. New permit SAN-2024-00138, which replaces now-revoked permit SAN-2022-00079, allows Australian people and organizations to give legal advice or legal representation to sanctioned parties in Australian courts and tribunals, including for the filing of court documents, the “engagement of expert witnesses,” and “administrative tasks necessary for legal proceedings” in Australian courts.