U.S. Customs and Border Protection is moving to replenish staffing levels by inviting retired CBP Officers, Border Patrol Agents, and Air and Marine Operations personnel to return to duty under newly expanded rehiring authorities.

A 33-year-old Belarusian national has been extradited from France to face charges in the United States for allegedly orchestrating a complex sanctions-evasion network that funneled U.S.-made aviation components to Russia in violation of U.S. export-control and money-laundering laws.

A federal jury in the Western District of New York has convicted a former engineer with Corning, Inc. on multiple counts of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets related to high-powered fiber laser research with defense applications. Ji Wang, sought investment from Chinese government entities to commercialize the stolen technology through China’s “Thousand Talents Plan.”

Peter Williams, 39,  former general manager at Trenchant, a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies Inc., pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of theft of trade secrets after selling sensitive cyber-exploitation software to a Russian broker.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to prosecute Smartmatic Corp. for alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations in the Philippines is prompting concerns over the consistency and neutrality of U.S. anti-bribery enforcement policy.  

On Oct. 7, a special chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal allowed the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs to proceed with the ouster of Nexperia CEO Zhang Xuezheng, a Chinese national, whom Dutch authorities said was moving to relocate the semiconductor company’s intellectual property to China. 

Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has levied a $374,474 civil penalty against Hallewell Ventures, Ltd. and its owner Russian businessman Albert Avdolyan for unlawfully reexporting a U.S.-controlled aircraft to Russia. 

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed a $685,051 civil penalty against Luminultra Technologies, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian diagnostics company, for the unauthorized export of laboratory equipment to Iran.

The Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have launched a new Trade Fraud Task Force to step up enforcement against importers accused of evading tariffs and smuggling prohibited goods.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti pledged vigorous enforcement against trade fraud and foreign bribery in remarks delivered at the Global Investigations Review Annual Meeting.

On September 9, 2025, U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced Gregory Muñoz to 18 months in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud in a scheme that fraudulently diverted biochemical …

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced today that Fracht FWO Inc., the Texas subsidiary of Swiss forwarder Fracht Group, has agreed to pay $1,610,775 to settle its potential civil liability for apparent violations of four separate U.S. sanctions programs.

The Justice Department, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, has created a Trade Fraud Task Force to step up enforcement against importers and others accused of evading tariffs and smuggling prohibited goods.

A federal judge in California sentenced a Chinese national convicted earlier this summer of illegally exporting firearms, ammunition, and controlled technology to North Korea and acting as an illegal agent of the hermit kingdom to eight years in prison.

A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Vadim Yermolenko to 30 months in prison and forfeiture of more than $75,000 on Monday for his role in a scheme to procure ammunition and export-controlled electronics for two blacklisted Russian companies.

The State Department has barred 17 individuals from participating in arms exports under the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), following criminal convictions in federal courts for offenses ranging from illegal arms brokering to smuggling and false export filings.

The chief executive of Del Records and Del Entertainment Inc. was sentenced to four years in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act by continuing business dealings with a sanctioned Mexican concert promoter tied to drug cartels.

The Justice Department on August 11 unsealed an indictment in the Southern District of Texas charging two Mexican nationals residing in Texas with bribing officials of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and its subsidiary PEMEX Exploración y Producción to secure $2.5 million in contracts.

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement remained dormant for a second straight quarter in 2025, with no new actions until the August 7 declination for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company over bribes paid by its Indian subsidiary.

The U.S. Department of Justice has declined to prosecute Liberty Mutual Insurance Company for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations tied to a bribery scheme in India, marking the first such corporate resolution since President Trump paused FCPA cases in February.