Eagle Shipping settles ‘egregious’ OFAC case for $1.1M
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Kyle Brasseur2020-01-27T20:25:00
Eagle Shipping International will make a handful of enhancements to its compliance controls as part of a $1.125 million settlement with the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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