CEO Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Export Specialty Metallurgical Metals to Iran Erdal Kuyumcu - CEO of Global Metallurgy, LLC, a company based in Woodside, NY, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the IEEPA [International Emergency Economic Powers Act] in connection with the export of specialty metals from the U.S. to Iran. Kuyumcu [U.S. citizen] pleaded … [Read more...]
Canadian-Iranian Citizen Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Conspiring To Violate Iran Sanctions
Canadian-Iranian Citizen Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Conspiring To Violate Iran Sanctions ALI REZA PARSA, a Canadian-Iranian dual citizen and resident of Canada, was sentenced to three years in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations … [Read more...]
DOJ: $98.9 Million Fine for Fixing Price of Ocean Shipping Services
DOJ: $98.9 Million Fine for Fixing Price of Ocean Shipping Services Company is Fourth Firm Charged in Conspiracy Among Major International Ocean Shipping Lines Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS (WWL), a Norwegian corporation, has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $98.9 million criminal fine for its involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices of international ocean shipments … [Read more...]
California Resident Convicted of Conspiring to Illegally Export Fighter Jet Engines & Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to China
California Resident Convicted of Conspiring to Illegally Export Fighter Jet Engines & Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to China Wenxia Man, aka Wency Man, 45, of San Diego, was convicted of conspiring to export and cause the export of fighter jet engines, an unmanned aerial vehicle – commonly known as a drone – and related technical data to the People’s Republic of China, in … [Read more...]
Singapore Man Extradited to United States in Connection with Exporting Plot to Iran
Singapore Man Extradited to United States in Connection with Exporting Plot to Iran A citizen of Singapore, Lim Yong Nam, aka Steven Lim, 42, has been extradited from Indonesia to stand trial at the District of Columbia on charges of taking part in a conspiracy that allegedly caused thousands of radio frequency modules to be illegally exported from the United States to … [Read more...]