Region: Iran, Islamic Republic of

The Oklahoma company said it was not attuned to OFAC regulations because it primarily operates in the US. OFAC said it is “particularly important” for US businesses to understand the sanctions risk of doing business in countries such as Iran.

19 April 2021

Nordgas for several years used code words for Iran in its correspondence with a US company it bought air pressure switches from to hide the ultimate destination of the goods, the agency said.

29 March 2021

22 March 2021

MSI Aircraft Maintenance Services will cooperate with US authorities on linked investigations into possible co-conspirators in the scheme to provide parts to a banned Iranian airline.

08 March 2021

Information management company Iron Mountain says that the possible US sanctions violations it disclosed to the Treasury Department in 2020 were “inadvertent”.

25 February 2021

24 February 2021

New Jersey-based Zoetis has reported potential Iranian sanctions violations to the US Justice Department after conducting an investigation into historic sales by a company it acquired.

17 February 2021

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has accused US prosecutors of making insufficient and delayed disclosures of potentially exculpatory material in a repeated request for information it says is critical to its defence.

08 February 2021

Federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, are attempting to seize a shipment of crude oil allegedly being transported to China at the direction of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards.

03 February 2021

Minnesota-based adhesives manufacturer HB Fuller says the US Treasury Department has concluded an investigation into potential breaches of sanctions on Iran with a warning.

27 January 2021