SAP Settles for $8M With US Over Violating Software Export Controls

SAP agreed to pay more than $8 million in fines after it admitted to violating U.S. export controls and sanctions against Iran, the Justice, Treasury and Commerce departments announced Thursday. The company came to settlement agreements after it voluntarily disclosed the violations, which included illegal exports and reexports of U.S.-origin software. Between 2010 and 2017, SAP and its partners in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and Malaysia released such software, upgrades and software patches more than 20,000 times to Iranian users, DOJ said. SAP senior officials knew it didn’t use geolocation filters to “identify and block Iranian downloads, yet for years the company did not remedy the issue,” the department said. The software maker didn't comment Friday.