US citizen gets jail time for smuggling controlled tech to Iran
[PDF], he and his co-conspirators allegedly sent"two subscriptions to a proprietary computer software program; several fixed attenuators; two subscriptions to operating software; six power supplies; and several storage systems" to Iran.
According to the DoJ, the recipient of the smuggled technology was the Central Bank of Iran, which FBI Counterintelligence Assistant Director Alan KohlerYou say sanctions, I say evasions The United States has had sanctions in place against Iran and Iranian entities for years, and as technology has evolved so have the materials being smuggled, and the methods of dodging the rules.that Iran began using cryptocurrency to pay for import orders, potentially as a way to evade sanctions.
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