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OFAC Delists Woman Once Accused of Selling Nuclear Triggers to Iraq

By Colby Adams

The U.S. Treasury Department Thursday lifted sanctions on a British resident whose conviction over 20 years ago on charges of attempting to transport nuclear triggers was quashed in 1994 by an English court. Jeanine Speckman and her former employer, Euromac, an Iraqi company once registered in the United Kingdom as an exporter of heating, cooling and ventilation equipment, have been removed from the U.S. list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) disclosed. "It was determined based on a review of available information that circumstances no longer warrant their inclusion on the SDN list,"...

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