OFAC Fines Boston Firm for Contracting Iranian Developers
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has fined a Boston-area software company for violating Iranian sanctions by using Web developers from that country. The company was fined $205,650 despite protests that the amount was too high and “its lack of a compliance program and failure to implement one ...
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