Overview
Combating the circumvention of strategic trade and export control restrictions remains a key area of focus for regulators, especially in the context of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. In keeping with its promise to step up enforcement, the U.S. government launched in early 2022 a multi-agency initiative called the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, which has so far prosecuted over three dozen cases. Those have included both successful and failed attempts at export control evasion for the benefit of Russia, Iran and China. This third, and last, episode in the Strategic Trade and Export Control series will take a close look at three enforcement actions in order to answer the following questions: What happened? What went wrong? What actions could have prevented the wrongdoing? What are the key learnings?