The EU last week issued new guidance on a requirement created in 2024 that calls on EU parent companies to make “best efforts” to ensure that their third-country subsidiaries aren’t enabling sanctions evasion (see 2411220014 and 2406240024). Although this “legal obligation applies only in the context of sanctions on Russia and Belarus,” the European Commission said it’s encouraging all EU parent companies “to seek to ensure that all entities they own or control do not undermine EU sanctions anywhere in the world.”
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US Commerce Official in Tokyo to Retire
Alan Turley, the Commerce Department's minister-counselor for commercial affairs stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, is retiring from the department in September, he announced on LinkedIn. Turley has served in that position since 2021 after working as Commerce's deputy assistant secretary for China and Mongolia during 2016-21.
Senior National Security Prosecutor Leaves DOJ to Join Law Firm
Ian Richardson, who was named the first chief counsel for corporate enforcement at DOJ’s National Security Division in 2023 (see 2309120017), left the government this month to join Paul Weiss as a lawyer working on national security issues, he announced on LinkedIn. Richardson was most recently chief counsel of DOJ’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.
OFAC Chief Counsel Leaves Agency
Rachel Alpert has left her role as chief counsel for the Office of Foreign Assets Control, she announced on LinkedIn. She was named to the position in October 2023 (see 2310250061).
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