Air Tiger Express settles charges of abetting unlicensed U.S. exports
Air Tiger Express has agreed to pay a $49,500 civil penalty to the U.S. Commerce Department to settle charges that it violated the country’s export control regulations.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security charged the on nine occasions in 1998 and 1999 the El Segundo, Calif.-based freight forwarder “aided and abetted” the shipment of unlicensed exports to importers in India that were on the department’s Entity List.
The Entity List is a compilation of end-users that the Commerce Department determined to present an risk of diversion for weapons development. Exports to end-users appearing on the Entity List require licenses from the Commerce Department. Violations are subject to criminal penalties and administrative sanctions.