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ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION FOR JUNE 13, 2019
Expedia Group, Inc. (“Expedia”) Settles Potential Civil Liability for Apparent Violations of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations: Expedia Group Inc., headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries worldwide, has agreed to pay $325,406 to settle potential civil liability for assisting 2,221 persons with Cuba-related travel services prior to agency notice in apparent violation of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 515 (CACR).
Specifically, between on or about April 22, 2011 and on or about October 16, 2014, Expedia dealt in property or interests in property of Cuba or Cuban nationals by assisting 2,221 persons — some of whom were Cuban nationals — with travel or travel-related services for travel within Cuba or between Cuba and locations outside the United States.
The apparent violations occurred because certain Expedia foreign...
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[Update - read these comments in conjunction with LICENSE No. CU-2016-329116-5 and comments thereto]
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1) NOTE COMMON TO THE THREE JUNE 13, 2019 CUBA-RELATED ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
This enforcement action is one of three issued on the same day in connection with the provision of travel-related services in connection with travel to Cuba. Individual and Cubasphere, Inc. (2019), Expedia Group, Inc. (2019), and Hotelbeds USA, Inc. All three of these enforcement actions pertain to activities that took place between April 2011 and December 2014. Each individual enforcement is discussed separately, but it should be noted that, as a group, they serve to illustrate an important point about the risks of engaging in prohibited conduct with respect to which OFAC appears to decline enforcement action as a policy preference. The prohibited activity all took...