A Dutch court sentenced an unnamed Soviet Union-born defendant to two years and eight months in prison last week for exporting more than 460 sanctioned aircraft parts to three Russian companies, the London office of Duane Morris said.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged the Biden administration late Oct. 7 to impose “robust” sanctions on the leaders of Sudan’s two warring parties for what his office called “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”
The U.K. on Oct. 8 corrected four entries listed in its cyber sanctions regime. The changes correct name spellings and a date of birth for Eduard Benderskiy, Aleksey Shchetinin, Dmitriy Slobodskoy and Maksim Yakubets, who were sanctioned for their ties to Russian crybercrime group Evil Corp.
The U.K. on Oct. 8 sanctioned one person and three entities with ties to chemical weapons, including Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov, head of the radiological chemical and biological defense troops in Russia, which is involved in transferring chemical weapons for use in the war in Ukraine. The agency also sanctioned the 33rd Scientific Research and Testing Institute, Radiological Chemical and Biological Defence Troops of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and the Russian Ministry of Defence 27th Scientific Centre.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa, the procurement director of the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese militant group warring with the Sudanese Armed Forces. OFAC said he leads RSF efforts to procure weapons and other military items, prolonging a war that has killed thousands of people, displaced millions and has led to “emergency levels of hunger” within Sudan. “The United States will continue to hold accountable those who seek to prolong this conflict and restrict access to vital humanitarian assistance at a time of famine and fragility,” said Brad Smith, the Treasury Department’s acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
A new EU sanctions framework against Russia will allow the bloc to designate people and entities involved in undermining foreign elections and democratic institutions, the sabotage of economic activities, disinformation and manipulation, "malicious" cyber activities and more. The Council of the EU said it established the new framework Oct. 8, allowing the EU to sanction those undermining the "fundamental values of the EU and its member states, their security, independence and integrity, as well as those of international organisations and third countries." The framework was based on a proposal by Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign affairs and security policy chief, to respond to the "continued campaign of hybrid activities by Russia," the council said.
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao urged U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo this week to lift U.S. semiconductor export restrictions against China (see 2211010042 and 2302020034) and reverse its proposed import restrictions on Chinese connected vehicles (see 2409220001), saying the two countries need to reach a clearer understanding around their national security-related trade policies.
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Oregon-based aerospace parts manufacturer Precision Castparts Corp. was fined $3 million after the State Department said its subsidiary illegally shared technical data with employees who were foreign nationals of Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Bhutan, Peru and Burundi, violating U.S. defense export controls.
Ross Denton, a U.K.-based export control, sanctions and trade lawyer, has joined Akin’s London office as a senior counsel in its international trade practice, the firm announced on LinkedIn. Ross previously worked for Van Vael & Bellis.