Weekend Roundup of Export Controls and Sanctions News

• Crew of cargo plane from North Korea detained in Thailand denies knowledge that they were transporting Arms

• German authorities are investigating shipments of high technology to Iran to see if they may have violated export control laws
  

• Federal agents in Dallas have grounded a helicopter that they say Italian aircraft brokers were planning to ship from North Texas to Iran in violation of U.S. trade sanctions.
  
  
• Obama Administration intends to target 'dozens' of IRGC front companies in effort to squeeze Iran 

• Obama’s Enforcer: The president's patience with Iran has worn thin. That's where Stuart Levey—rhymes with 'heavy'—comes in.
  

U.S. secretly froze more than $2 billion allegedly held for Iran in Citigroup accounts in 2008 

• American subcontractor arrested in Cuba for apparently handing out computers and telecom equipment 

• House of Representatives schedule to vote on bipartisan Iran sanctions legislation that targets companies supplying Iran with gasoline or helping the country expand its refining system