Justice: Former Logistics CEO Pleads Guilty to Export Law Violations Conspired to Ship Goods to Blacklisted Chinese Companies

Justice: Former Logistics CEO Pleads Guilty to Export Law Violations Conspired to Ship Goods to Blacklisted Chinese Companies

Justice the former CEO of an international logistics / freight forwarding company plead guilty to conspiring to violate export laws by shipping goods to CN companies on the Entity List.

  • This man knew that the company in CN changed their name to evade the entity list restrictions (from Seajet to Hisiang) because the company told them in an email
  • A BIS person visited their office to tell them about the prohibition and educate them, and at a later date another official reached out to get a list of their prohibited companies (Seajet / Hisiang wasn't on that list).

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