The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged ten defendants and arrested one with conspiring to violate the International Economic Emergency Powers Act for their roles in a scheme to evade sanctions imposed on PDVSA – Petróleos de Venezuela by obtaining US aircraft parts.

According to a DOJ statement dated April 22, after learning of the US sanctions imposed on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company in January 2019, the charged individuals “devised a scheme to illegally procure aircraft parts, including…

Source: ch aviation
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