The U.S. on Dec. 27 sanctioned Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian oligarch and former Georgian prime minister. The State Department said Ivanishvili was sanctioned for "undermining the democratic and Euro-Atlantic future of Georgia for the benefit of" Russia, and he has also contributed to human rights abuses in the country.
The Commerce Department’s fall 2024 regulatory agenda for the Bureau of Industry and Security features a host of new rules that could soon update U.S. export controls, including restrictions on aircraft engines, biological equipment and reporting requirements for certain weapons sales, AI chips.
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Members of the European Parliament passed three sanctions-related resolutions last week calling on the bloc and other countries to increase restrictions on human rights violators and countries aiding Russia.
The Bureau of Industry and Security fined a U.S.-based electronics manufacturer and supplier for the semiconductor industry $180,000 after it admitted to exporting 11 shipments to Russia without a license. BIS said the company, Indium Corporation of America, which has factories in Asia and Europe, failed to resolve multiple red flags involving shipments of solder wires, solder ribbon and solder preforms to a Russian defense contractor.
The U.K.'s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation amended one entry under its Belarus sanctions regime on Dec. 19. OFSI altered the listing for Mikail Gutseriev, a Cypriot-Russian businessman, to establish that he was being sanctioned for "owning or controlling directly or indirectly" Belarussian energy companies JSC NK Neftisa and PJSC RussNeft.
The Bureau of Industry and Security should increase its enforcement of semiconductor export controls to prevent American-made computing chips from ending up in Russian weapons and Chinese artificial intelligence systems, the Democratic majority staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a new report released this week.
The U.K. amended its listing for Autel Robotics Co., Ltd., under the Russia sanctions regime on Dec. 18 to reflect a different address. The company was originally sanctioned in July for making unmanned aerial vehicle systems for the Russian military.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned three people and four entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina that are part of a sanctioned financial network propping up Milorad Dodik, the designated president of the Serb Republic, which is a political division of Bosnia.
The U.S. this week announced sanctions on entities, ships and one person that are involved in the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline or that are linked to the project. Each was previously sanctioned under the Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act, but the State Department said it’s redesignating them under a 2021 Russia-related executive order.