The OverRuled: Russia Trade Controls Resource Center has been updated with the following actions:
- 20 Dec 2024 (BIS):
The Akin Summary document has now been posted for this action.
The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") assessed a $180,000 civil monetary penalty against New York-based Indium Corporation of America ("Indium Corporation") for unauthorized shipments of export-controlled solder preforms, solder wires, and solder ribbon to Russia.
- 17 Dec 2024 (BIS):
The Akin Summary document has now been posted for this action.
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) imposed a $3.3 million civil monetary penalty (with $1.5 million suspended) against California-based Integra Technologies, Inc. (“Integra”) for unauthorized shipments of export-controlled transistors and related products to end users in Russia.
- 06 Dec 2024 (BIS):
The Akin Summary document has now been posted for this action.
BIS again renewed two temporary denial orders ("TDOs") for two Russian airlines: Nordwind Airlines ("Nordwind") and Siberian Airlines d/b/a S7 Airlines ("Siberian"). The TDOs were last renewed on December 11, 2023 and, like the previous TDO renewals for these airlines, these latest renewals extend the TDO for each airline for a period of one year.
The OverRuled: China Trade Controls Resource Center has been updated with the following actions:
- 17 Jan 2025 (OFAC):
OFAC sanctioned Yin Kecheng and Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., Ltd., PRC-based malicious cyber actors, pursuant to EO 13694, for their involvement in serious intrusion activities.
Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based malicious cyber actor and PRC Ministry of State Security affiliate, was associated with the recent compromise of the Department of Treasury's network. Sichuan Juxinhe is a Sichuan-based cybersecurity company with direct involvement in the Salt Typhoon intrusions. PRC-linked Salt Typhoon malicious cyber activity is responsible for numerous compromises of U.S. telecommunication and internet service provider companies as part of a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.
- 16 Jan 2025 (OFAC):
OFAC sanctioned two individuals and four entities based in Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("DPRK") and the PRC for generating illicit revenue for the DPRK government. One PRC-based individual acting for a front company for a DPRK weapons trading department and one PRC-based entity supplying the DPRK government with electronic equipment are sanctioned pursuant to EO 13722.
The DPRK dispatches thousands of highly skilled information technology (IT) workers around the world to generate revenue for the regime, to finance its illegal weapons programs, and to enable its support of Russia's war in Ukraine. The DPRK government withholds up to 90 percent of the wages earned by these overseas workers, thereby generating annual revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars for the regime's weapons programs.
- 16 Jan 2025 (OFAC):
OFAC sanctioned Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces ("SAF"), along with one Sudanese-Ukrainian individual (Ahmad Abdalla) affiliated with the SAF, and a Hong Kong-based company controlled by Abdalla (Portex Trade Limited), pursuant to EO 14098.
The SAF has committed lethal attacks on civilians, including airstrikes against protected infrastructure such as schools, markets, and hospitals. The SAF is also responsible for the routine and intentional denial of humanitarian access, using food deprivation as a war tactic.
Abdalla is an official of the Defense Industries System ("DIS"), the primary procurement arm of the SAF, which OFAC sanctioned in June 2023. To evade sanctions, DIS conducts procurement activities through ostensibly private companies working on its behalf. Abdalla is the Chief Operating Officer of Portex Trade Limited, a company that has transacted with entities involved in the sale of military equipment.
- 15 Jan 2025 (OFAC):
The United States sanctioned more than 250 entities and individuals in support of Russia's war effort, building on the January 10 sanctions targeting Russia's energy sector.
In this action, the Department of State designated over 150 entities and individuals based in the PRC, Russia, Hong Kong, Türkiye, Malaysia, the UAE, and the UK, pursuant to EO 14024, for their involvement in Russia's defense industry and supporting its military industrial base.
Concurrently, OFAC sanctioned more than 100 entities based in Russia, the PRC, and the Kyrgyz Republic across Russia's financial, defense, and energy sectors, pursuant to EO 14024 and EO 13662, for participating in a sanctions evasion scheme established between Russia and the PRC to facilitate cross-border payments for sensitive dual-use goods, as well as a Kyrgyz Republic-based financial institution that worked with Russian officials and a U.S.-designated bank to circumvent sanctions.
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