Illicit Trade: ISIS Reports
2012
Case Study - U.S. Company Charged with Pressure Transducer Sales: Who Were the End Users? May 14, 2012
Case of Three Tinners Set for Trial: Plea Deal Expected April 25, 2012
Pakistani Man Sentenced to Prison in U.S. Export Violation Case January 11, 2012
2011
Case Study - Chinese National Charged with Illegal U.S. Exports to Pakistani Nuclear Program
Andrea Stricker August 23, 2011
Case Study - IRISL and Affiliates Indicted on Financial Conspiracy Charges
Andrea Stricker July 8, 2011
European Court of Human Rights Rejects Tinners’ Appeal April 26, 2011
Case Study - Man Charged with Exporting U.S. Goods to Pakistan’s Nuclear Program
David Albright and Andrea Stricker April 14, 2011
Yadegari Appeal Denied by Canadian Court
Andrea Stricker April 14, 2011
Case Study - A Smuggler’s Use of the U.S. Financial System to Receive Illegal Payments from Iran Updated February 11, 2011
Andrea Stricker February 11, 2011
Case Study - United States Indicts Man behind Alleged Multi-Million Dollar Iranian Smuggling Network
Andrea Stricker February 11, 2011
State Department Cables: United States Pressures China over Limmt, to No Avail February 3, 2011
2010
Swiss Judge Recommends Charges against the Tinners December 23, 2010
The Tinner Case: Time for a Frank, Open Evaluation
David Albright and Paul Brannan December 21, 2010
CIA Recruitment of the Three Tinners: A Preliminary Assessment
David Albright and Paul Brannan December 21, 2010
State Department Cables: Stopping Iran’s and North Korea’s Illicit Procurement for their Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Programs December 10, 2010
Chinese Firms Continue to Evade Iran Sanctions October 19, 2010
Comprehensive Piece on Iranian Military Equipment Smuggler and U.S. Sting Operation October 5, 2010
Case Study - Yadegari Sentenced to 20 Months Plus Time Served ; Worked for Procurement Ring that Supplied Iran’s Enrichment Program
Andrea Stricker August 2, 2010
Case Study - Update: New Charges for Irish Company Suspected of Military Exports to Iran
Andrea Stricker July 16, 2010
Case Study - U.S. Company Faces Penalties for Alleged Nuclear Export Attempts to India, Israel
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Stricker July 14, 2010
Man Suspected of Illicit Nuclear Trade to Iran Found Guilty July 6, 2010
Eli Lake’s New Report and the Inadvertent Conflation of Sources About the Notorious Tinner Family July 2, 2010
Was Kakavand’s Acquittal Part of a Quid Pro Quo with Iran? - Update II May 19, 2010
Update: U.S. Extradition Request Denied in France for Alleged Iranian Military Parts Smuggler May 12, 2010
Malaysia Finally Adopts National Export Controls
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Christina Walrond April 9, 2010
Detecting and Disrupting Illicit Nuclear Trade after A.Q. Khan (published in the Washington Quarterly Vol. 33)
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker March 26, 2010
Pakistani Government Seeks to Investigate A.Q. Khan’s Activities March 22, 2010
The Price of Getting Documents from A.Q. Khan: Carrying his Water
David Albright and Paul Brannan March 17, 2010
Washington Post article featuring ISIS’ book Peddling Peril March 10, 2010
Latest Collaboration Between ISIS and the Media on Illicit Trade March 1, 2010
French Court Delays Decision over Extradition of Majid Kakavand February 17, 2010
Busting the Members at the Core of Iran’s Smuggling Networks for Nuclear, Missile, and Conventional Military Goods*
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Case Study - Inventive U.S. Sting Operation Catches Iran-Based Military Equipment Smuggler
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Case Study - Former Iranian Ambassador Arrested in UK for Alleged Iran-Directed Smuggling Scheme
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Case Study - Middleman Majid Kakavand Arrested for Malaysia-Based Iranian Illicit Procurement Scheme
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Case Study - Arrest Made in Germany of Core Iranian Procurement Agent
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
2009
Self-Serving Leaks from the A.Q. Khan Circle
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker December 9, 2009
Case Study - Update: Smuggler Previously Convicted of Aircraft Export Control Violations; Disguised Company as a Larger Operation
Andrea Scheel Stricker October 23, 2009
Case Study - Decision Reached on Vanaki Case: Landgericht Finds Defendant Guilty, Issues Suspended Sentence
David Albright and Christina Walrond October 23, 2009
Case Study - The Trials of the German-Iranian Trader Mohsen Vanaki: The German Federal Intelligence Service Assesses that Iran Likely Has a Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Christina Walrond October 23, 2009
Case Study - Smugglers Assist North Korea-Directed Illicit Trade to Myanmar
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel July 14, 2009
Case Study - A Smuggler’s Procurement of Nuclear Dual-Use Pressure Transducers for Iran
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel July 14, 2009
Case Study - Iran’s Procurement of U.S. Military Aircraft Parts: Two case studies in illicit trade
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel May 21, 2009
Case Study - Profitable and Low-Penalty: Illicit Procurement of Items with Nuclear Applications for Pakistan
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel February 27, 2009
Case Study - Pakistan’s Illicit Procurement of Missile and Drone Equipment Using Multiple Financial Transaction
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 28, 2009
Case Study - An Inside Look: India’s Procurement of Tributyl Phosphate (TBP) for its Unsafeguarded Nuclear Program
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 28, 2009
Case Study - A Company’s Discretion Detects Large Iranian Valve Orders by Scrutinizing Items and End-Users Instead of Lists
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 28, 2009
Case Study - How Cooperation between a Company and Government Authorities Disrupted a Sophisticated Illicit Iranian Procurement
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
Case Study - Detecting the Barrage Approach to Illicit Procurement
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
Case Study - Iranian Entities’ Illicit Military Procurement Networks
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
2008
Swiss Smugglers Had Advanced Nuclear Weapons Designs
David Albright June 16, 2008
2005
Multilateral Nuclear Export Controls After the A.Q. Khan Network
Jacob Blackford January 13, 2005
2004
Asher Karni Case Shows Weakness in Nuclear Export Controls
Jacob Blackford September 8, 2004
Libya’s Gas Centrifuge Procurement: Much Remains Undiscovered
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 1, 2004
Documents Indicate A.Q. Khan Offered Nuclear Weapon Designs to Iraq in 1990: Did He Approach Other Countries?
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein February 4, 2004
1993
Building a Corporate Nonproliferation Ethic
David Albright and Peter Gray June 1, 1993
The first ISIS Report. This report discusses the activities of Leybold AG with Iraq prior to the Persian Gulf War, and the subsequent efforts by Leybold to implement internal compliance principles to govern exports of sensitive items.