TEMPORARY DENIAL ORDER WITH HONG KONG RELATED

C O N F I D E N T I A L HONG KONG 000680 SIPDIS STATE FOR EAP/CM E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/09/2024 TAGS: ETRD ETTC HK PARM SUBJECT: TEMPORARY DENIAL ORDER WITH HONG KONG RELATED PERSONS PASSED TO HKTID REF: SECSTATE 9902 Classified By: Acting Deputy Principal Officer, Laurent Charbonnet. Rea son 1.4 b/d. (C) Post's Bureau of Industry Security Attache passed to Hong Kong's Trade and Industry Department on April 9 the Temporary Denial Order (TDO) naming Hong Kong enterprise Starry Shine International Limited and individuals Ghasem Nabipour and Armad Sarkandi as related persons in a previous TDO. HKTID's Principal Trade Officer Billy Au said that he would review the current TDO and, while the company and named individuals may not have violated Hong Kong export control laws, that company/persons engaged in the sorts of activities described in this TDO may be worthy of additional scrutiny by the Hong Kong government. (NOTE: On January 22, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) issued a Temporary Denial Order (TDO),suspending the export privileges of Icarus Marine Ltd. of South Africa. According to the January 22 TDO, the Department of Commerce developed evidence that Icarus Marine Ltd. of South Africa attempted to ship a powerboat, named the Bradstone Challenger, from Durban, South Africa to Bandar Abbas, Iran, in violation of export controls, reftel A. END NOTE.) DONOVAN