The Department of Justice reports that a U.S. company has been sentenced to pay the maximum allowable fine of $140,000 after pleading guilty to 14 counts of failure to file export information on shipments to Russia and Ukraine. The company will also be subject to a two-year term of corporate probation and monitoring.
According to a DOJ press release, between 2015 and 2019 the company exported goods to Russia, Ukraine, and elsewhere while falsely describing the nature and value of the items on commercial invoices and shipping forms. The company admitted that it used false, innocuous descriptions and drastically undervalued the shipments, thereby evading the requirement to file electronic export information that would have been reported to the departments of Commerce and Homeland Security.
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