The U.K. has made small corrections to various sanctions listings under its Myanmar, Global Human Rights and Global Anti-Corruption sanctions regimes, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation announced. Under the Myanmar sanctions list, OFSI corrected the entry for the 99th Light Infantry Division, an entity it originally listed Dec. 9. For the Global Human Rights restrictions, OFSI corrected the entries for Kale Kayihura and Artur Shambazov -- entries that also were listed on Dec. 9. Under the Global Anti-Corruption sanctions regime, OFSI corrected the entry for Veselinovic Zvonko.
The U.K. added 15 individuals and one entity to its Russia sanctions regime Dec. 13, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation announced. The individuals are businessmen and government officials responsible for arming the Russian military with unmanned aerial vehicles for the war in Ukraine. The entity is Oje Parvaz Mado Nafar Co., an Iranian business that provides UAVs for the Russian military. The Dec. 13 notice also amended the entry for Said Mikhailovich Gutseriev.
The EU added 24 individuals and five entities to its sanctions regime against Iran in response to the repression of ongoing protests and provision of military assistance to Russia. Twenty of the individuals and one of the entities were subjected to an asset freeze and travel ban for aiding in the crackdown on protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, the European Council said. Four of the individuals and four of the entities were added to the restrictions list for their role in supplying Russia with unmanned aerial vehicles to aid in the war against Ukraine. The council said it plans to impose sanctions on another entity for these same reasons.
The EU added eight individuals and four entities to its sanctions regime on North Korea for their role in the development of ballistic missiles. The new entries provided "support and funds for DPRK's nuclear-related and ballistic-missile related programmes," the European Council said. The listings include two oil tankers and delivery vessels and the North Korean Ministry of Rocket Industry. Restrictions now apply to 73 individuals and 17 entities and amount to an asset freeze and travel ban.
The Federal Maritime Commission’s proposed demurrage and detention billing requirements (see 2210070079) may lead to “unintended consequences” by only allowing “contracted parties to be charged with demurrage and detention fees,” the National Association of Chemical Distributors said Dec. 13 in comments to the FMC. NACD is “concerned that this requirement would in some cases force parties that are not responsible for the conduct that caused the incurrence of the demurrage and detention fees to be charged and liable for detention and demurrage fees,” NACD Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Jennifer Gibson said. “This would cause additional delays, add more time for demurrage fees to accrue unnecessarily, and increase the potential for disputes.”
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The Bureau of Industry and Security issued a 180-day temporary denial order this week against three people and two companies for illegally sending controlled exports to Russia as part of a Moscow-led sanctions evasion scheme. Along with the denial order, DOJ indicted the three people, along with others, on charges related to the illegal exports, including money laundering, wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiring to defraud the U.S.
China took to the World Trade Organization Dec. 12 to challenge U.S. export control measures on semiconductor chips and other products, an official at China's Ministry of Commerce said, according to an unofficial translation. China referred the export restrictions to the trade body's dispute settlement mechanism, claiming the U.S. has been "generalizing the concept of national security."
The U.K.'s Export Control Joint Unit -- a wing of its Department for International Trade -- said it issued 12 "compound settlement offers" between May and October for unlicensed exports of dual-use goods, military goods and related activity. The settlements range from $1,228 to $333,765. The ECJU did not provide details of the settlements, only describing each as relating to either the "unlicensed exports of military goods," breaches of license conditions over the export of dual-use goods, or "unlicensed exports of dual-use goods."
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite last week touted DOJ's action under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, championing DOJ's $315 million FCPA resolution with ABB over the company's bribery of an official in South Africa's state-owned energy company (see 2212050021). The case was the department's "first coordinated resolution with authorities in South Africa," and has resulted in South African authorities bringing corruption charges of their own against the official, Polite said in closing remarks, as prepared for delivery, Dec. 9 at an anti-corruption conference.