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OFAC Delists Woman Once Accused of Selling Nuclear Triggers to Iraq
By Colby Adams
printThe U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday revoked the designation of a U.K. resident whose conviction more than 20 years ago on charges of attempting to transport nuclear triggers to Iraq was quashed shortly thereafter by an English court. Jeanine Speckman and her former employer, Euromac, an Iraqi company once registered in the U.K. as an exporter of heating, cooling and ventilation equipment, have been removed from the U.S. list of Specially Designated Nationals, or SDNs, maintained by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, after a review determined that "circumstances no longer warrant their inclusion," John Sullivan,...
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