A growing share of Bureau of Industry and Security export-control settlements under the Trump administration have approached the maximum penalties allowed by law, according to a Center for Strategic …
The case illustrates how overseas intermediaries can conceal the Iranian destination of U.S. technology behind an ostensibly legitimate sale to China. Dindar’s admitted use of false destination claims underscores the importance of verifying the ultimate end user and intended use of sensitive exports, particularly when a third-country buyer arranges onward shipment.
A Virginia company concealed its Russian ownership to sell digital forensic software to the U.S. Secret Service, federal prosecutors alleged in charges announced September 23 against its CEO and a Russian owner.
A Russian national with Swiss and Estonian citizenship has pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally export nearly $2 million in U.S.-origin aerospace components to Russia. DOJ announced Andrei Samuilovski’s plea on September 14, 2026.
The agreements close one of the FIFA investigation’s oldest cases on softer terms than prosecutors sought in 2015. They follow the Justice Department’s dismissal of reinstated convictions against Full Play and a former Fox executive—a result the U.S. attorney said reflected the Trump administration’s enforcement priorities.
The Sept. 9 actions broaden the campaign from scam compounds to the financial and technological networks that support them, while underscoring a separate problem: seized cryptocurrency can be difficult to return to victims.
When faculty disclosures, conflict-of-interest records, sponsored-research systems and export-control processes remain siloed, undisclosed foreign ties can create exposure under grant rules, agency-specific restrictions and the False Claims Act—even when the relevant information already exists somewhere within the university.
Most of the ammunition was subsequently reexported from Kyrgyzstan to Russia, DOJ said. The department described the ammunition as military-grade and said Gruber’s conduct supported Russia’s war effort.
The case illustrates how restricted U.S.-made firearms components can be routed through intermediary countries to buyers in Russia. Prosecutors said Larin concealed the shipments through false descriptions, undervalued declarations and third-country destinations.
All 171 aircraft in Aeroflot’s mainline fleet are Western-built, making illicit access to replacement parts a critical test of U.S. export controls imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
CML kept supplying Ball Corporation’s former Russian can business after its sale to Arnest Group, using UAE and Turkish intermediaries despite export restrictions and sanctions-evasion red flags.
The findings seek to distance Supermicro’s current leadership from an alleged $2.5 billion scheme to route export-controlled AI servers to China, while the employee dismissals and planned compliance upgrades underscore questions about how the transactions passed through the company’s internal controls.
The expanded indictment shows that U.S. authorities are still pursuing alleged state-backed hackers years after the attacks, even when the defendants remain beyond their immediate reach.
Plexon Inc. will pay no money under its newly announced settlement with the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, provided the neuroscience-equipment company meets compliance conditions imposed for the next five years.
The settlement is one of the State Department’s larger recent civil export-enforcement actions, with regulators describing BAE’s violations as systemic and requiring three years of independent oversight and compliance reforms.
OFAC expects U.S. companies to do more than issue high-level sanctions directives to foreign subsidiaries. The case shows that effective compliance requires locally understandable training, distributor vetting and controls capable of detecting indirect sales and diversion through high-risk jurisdictions.
Judge Nicholas Garaufis dropped the charges against the two men while criticizing DOJ’s rationale and leaving related bribery and obstruction charges pending against other executives.
The revocations mark the FCC’s first completed national-security enforcement action against a drone company accused of disguising foreign-made equipment as American-produced. Agency says the company failed to respond after its purported Texas assembler denied having any relationship with it
The case illustrates how illicit procurement networks use encrypted communications, cryptocurrency and indirect shipping routes to evade U.S. export controls.
Taiwan-based LED manufacturer Everlight Electronics and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve allegations that they evaded tariffs on Chinese-made products, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said.
