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1059. Do the determinations made pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14071 on May 8, 2022, “Prohibitions Related to Certain Accounting, Trust and Corporate Formation, and Management Consulting Services,” on September 15, 2022, “Prohibitions Related to Certain Quantum Computing Services,” and on May 19, 2023, “Prohibitions Related to Architecture and Engineering Services” (“the determinations”), prohibit U.S. persons from providing services to persons located outside of the Russian Federation that are owned or controlled by persons located in the Russian Federation?
No, provided that the provision of services is not an indirect export to a person located in the Russian Federation. For the purposes of these determinations, OFAC interprets the “indirect” provision of the prohibited services to include when the benefit of the services is ultimately received by a “person located in the Russian Federation.”
In contrast, OFAC would not consider to be prohibited the provision of services...
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1) See section II(b) of General Note on E.O. 14071-Based Prohibitions on the Exportation of Certain Services to Persons Located in Russia (System Ed. Note) for comments on the FAQ in the context of the relevant prohibitions in general. See more generally comment 4.2(ii) to Notes Common to "Provision of services" and "Provision and receipt of services" Interpretive Provisions, dealing with the notion of an "indirect" provision of services to a sanctioned person by virtue of providing services to third-country companies that are owned, controlled, or owned and controlled by sanctioned persons. This FAQ, while cabined on its face to the relatively irregular service-specific prohibitions of the EO 14071 determinations, may reflect agency practice as it relates to the provision of services to third-country companies owned or controlled by persons located in embargoed jurisdictions more generally.
2) Query: where a Russian...