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WASHINGTON -- The Commerce Department today imposed a $50,000 civil penalty on Delft Instruments, NV, a firm located in the Netherlands, to settle allegations that Delft made false statements to the Department in connection with an enforcement action, Frank Deliberti, acting assistant secretary for Export Enforcement, announced.
The Department alleged that, on five separate occasions between August 2, 1991 and February 10, 1992, Delft made false and misleading statements of material fact to the Department when Delft opposed the renewal of a 1991 temporary denial order. The alleged false statements related to representations Delft made to the Department concerning whether members of its Executive Board knew that Delft had exported thermal imagining prototypes to Iraq and Jordan without the required U.S. export licenses. Delft pleaded guilty in 1992 to charges that it had violated the Arms Export Control Act by exporting U.S.-origin thermal imagining prototypes to Iraq without the required export license.
Commerce's Office of Export Enforcement Washington Field Office investigated the case.
Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration administers and enforces export controls for reasons of national security, foreign policy, nonproliferation and short supply. Criminal penalties, as well as administrative sanctions, can be imposed for violations of the regulations.
In April of 2002 the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) changed its name to the Bureau of Industry and Security(BIS). For historical purposes we have not changed the references to BXA in the legacy documents found in the Archived Press and Public Information.