State Dept. Imposes Export Penalties for Illegal Transfers to Iran, North Korea, Syria

The State Department this week announced penalties on three people and two entities and their subsidiaries for illegal transfers under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act.

The agency in a notice said the parties transferred items subject to multilateral control lists that contribute to weapons proliferation or missile production. The State Department, which barred them from making certain purchases of items controlled on the U.S. Munitions List and by the Arms Export Control Act, will suspend any current export licenses. The agency also will bar them from receiving new export licenses for any goods subject to the Export Administration Regulations. The restrictions will remain in place for two years from the May 20 effective date.

The people are Aleksey Budnev of Russia, Ch'oe Ch'o'l-min of North Korea and Han Dejian of China. The entities are Shanghai Growth International Logistics Ltd and Yidatong (Tianjin) Metal Materials Co., Ltd.