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The U.S. Department of State (“State Department”) announced the imposition of sanctions on Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (“SSB”) pursuant to Section 231 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (“CAATSA”). The U.S. is sanctioning SSB over its procurement of the S-400 surface-to-air missile system from Russia’s Rosoboronexport (“ROE”). SSB is Turkey’s primary defense procurement entity and ROE is Russia’s main exporter of arms. As a result of Turkey’s actions, the U.S. is imposing full blocking sanctions on four SSB officials along with certain non-blocking CAATSA sanctions on the SSB entity.
December 18, 2020
On December 14, 2020, the United States imposed sanctions on the Republic of Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (“SSB”), the country’s defense procurement agency, and four senior officials at the agency, for knowingly engaging in a “significant transaction” with Rosoboronexport (“ROE”), Russia’s main arms export entity, in procuring the S-400 surface-to-air missile system. These measures were a long-time coming under Section 231 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (“CAATSA”) of 2017, the President has been
required to impose sanctions on any person determined to have knowingly “engage[d] in a significant transaction with a person that is part of, or operates for or on behalf of, the defense or intelligence sectors of the Government of the Russian Federation.” This includes ROE, and Turkey’s multi-billion dollar S-400 transaction with ROE has been public knowledge for at least three years. Indeed, in
Today, the United States Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari in
Trans Union LLC v. Ramirez. At issue is an eight-figure judgment obtained by a certified class of consumers for statutory and punitive damages based on violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), which was upheld by a divided Ninth Circuit panel. The Supreme Court’s order accepts the following Question Presented for review: “Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an injury anything like what the class representative suffered.”
The litigation arises out of the named plaintiff’s car shopping experience. When Ramirez submitted a credit application, the car dealership allegedly received an erroneous alert from a consumer reporting agency indicating that Ramirez matched with the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) database a list of individuals with whom Amer
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The State Department announced the imposition of sanctions on the Republic of Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (“SSB”), and four related Turkish individuals under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (“CAATSA”) for engaging in a significant transaction with a designated party in the Russian defense sector for the procurement of the S-400 surface-to-air missile system from Russia. The sanctions prohibit the issuance of all U.S. export licenses and authorizations and certain loans to SSB, while designating four corporate officers of SSB as Specially Designated Nationals (“SDNs”) and imposing full blocking sanctions and visa restrictions on them.
What US sanctions can do to generals
December 16, 2020 Written by ROBERT SPIN MUKASA
US lawmakers have focused their recent anger against Uganda and the ruling NRM government’s use of force to slow the march of the coronavirus and in the process restrict freedom of association and expression during the electoral period.
They have written to US Secretary of State Mike R. Pompeo urging the US administration to conjure up a more muscular response to human rights abuses in Uganda and the country’s slide toward authoritarianism.
In an apparent response to that plea, Mike R. Pompeo in a recent tweet, said Uganda was a long-standing partner and Washington expected its partners to hold free and fair elections.