Illicit Trade: Reports
2024
Russian Decoy Drones that Depend on Western Parts Pose a Great Challenge to Ukrainian Defenses
Igor Anokhin and Spencer Faragasso
December 18, 2024
Action from Semiconductor Companies is Long Overdue
David Albright and Spencer Faragasso
September 23, 2024
Chinese Export of Restricted High Priority Battlefield Items to Russia
Spencer Faragasso
September 23, 2024
Unsealed Indictment Shows Iranian Agents Acquired Controlled Camera with Nuclear Weapons Application from United States
Sarah Burkhard, Chloe DeVere, and Kendall Roach1
August 26, 2024
Case Study on smuggling sensitive U.S.-origin items through Chinese front companies to Iranian military entities
Victoria Cheng
August 12, 2024
Russian Company Drake LLC’s Procurements for JSC Alabuga’s Military Drone Projects - JSC Alabuga’s Weaponization of Commercial Drones for Military Use in Ukraine
David Albright and Spencer Faragasso
July 15, 2024
Russian Company Elmak Procures “High Priority” Items for Russia’s War Efforts via China
David Albright and Spencer Faragasso
July 11, 2024
Iran/Russia Military Technology Axis: Russia Showcases to Iran New and Advanced Military Technology
David Albright and Spencer Faragasso
June 25, 2024
Alabuga’s Greatly Expanded Production Rate of Shahed 136 Drones
David Albright, Dr. Igor Anokhin,[1] Sarah Burkhard, Victoria Cheng, and Spencer Faragasso
May 10, 2024
Alabuga’s Shahed 136 (Geran 2) Warheads: A Dangerous Escalation
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Spencer Faragasso
May 9, 2024
2023
Satellite Imagery Update on Alabuga Shahed-136 Drone Factory - No snow day for Russia's drone production!
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Victoria Cheng [1]
December 20, 2023
Russian Lancet-3 Kamikaze Drone Filled with Foreign Parts: Western Parts Enable Russian Lancet-3 Drone to Have Advanced Targeting and Anti-jamming Capabilities
Spencer Faragasso
December 18, 2023
Electronics in the Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
November 14, 2023
Visible Progress at Russia’s Shahed Drone Production Site Satellite Imagery Update and Call for Action
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and the Good ISIS team
November 13, 2023
A Strategic Challenge: A Peddling Peril Index Analysis of Countries’ Restricted Russia Trade
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Spencer Faragasso
July 10, 2023
2022
Procurement Data and Safeguards: Looking Historically and to the Future
David Albright
November 21, 2022
Russian Military UAV Used in Ukraine Depends on Foreign Parts
Spencer Faragasso
May 11, 2022
Responsible Statecraft Correlates with UN Vote on Russian Invasion of Ukraine : An Application of the 2021 Peddling Peril Index
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Spencer Faragasso
March 21, 2022
2021
Iranian Illicit Procurement Scheme to Acquire Controlled Spectrometry Systems Busted
Spencer Faragasso and Sarah Burkhard
September 16, 2021
2019
Peddling Peril Index (PPI) for 2019
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Andrea Stricker
May 23, 2019
2018
Case Study: Fake Defense Contractor Indicted for Exporting Military Related Drawings to Turkey
Hanah Joudi and Andrea Stricker
September 25, 2018
On the Question of Another North Korean Centrifuge Plant and the Suspect Kangsong Plant
David Albright
May 25, 2018
Correlating a Country’s Economic Output with its Level of Export Controls
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, Bridget Leahy, and Andrea Stricker
April 23, 2018
Chongsu Nuclear-Grade Graphite Production Plant? North Korea may be proliferating controlled nuclear goods
David Albright
April 20, 2018
Case Study: Two Plead Guilty in Pakistan Illicit Procurement Case
Bridget Leahy and Andrea Stricker
March 26, 2018
Iran Nuclear Deal Procurement Channel Update: Is it being bypassed?
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
March 26, 2018
Sudan/Russian Nuclear Power Cooperation Poses Proliferation Risks
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, Bridget Leahy, and Andrea Stricker
March 13, 2018
52 Countries Involved in Violating UNSC Resolutions on North Korea throughout most of 2017
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
March 9, 2018
Peddling Peril Index (PPI) for 2017
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
January 31, 2018
2017
Countries Involved in Violating UNSC Resolutions on North Korea
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
December 5, 2017
Most Nuclear Ban Treaty Proponents are Lagging in Implementing Sound Export Control Legislation
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
September 27, 2017
Transfer of Firearms on U.S. Control Lists Raises Proliferation, Terrorism Concerns
Andrea Stricker and David Albright
September 25, 2017
Strengthening the Counter-Illicit Nuclear Trade Regime in the Face of New Threats: A Two-Year Review of Proliferation Threats Associated with the Middle East
David Albright, Andrea Stricker, Sarah Burkhard, and Erica Wenig
September 12, 2017
Case Study: United States Levies Civil Suits Against Chinese and Russian Entities for Helping North Korea Bust Financial and Nonproliferation Sanctions
Andrea Stricker
September 7, 2017
Nuclear Infrastructure and Proliferation Risks of the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Egypt
Sarah Burkhard, Erica Wenig, David Albright, and Andrea Stricker
August 25, 2017
Status of the Iran Nuclear Deal’s Procurement Channel
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
August 16, 2017
Is Iran Mass Producing Advanced Gas Centrifuge Components? Can we even know with the way the Iran deal has been structured and implemented so far?
David Albright and Olli Heinonen
May 30, 2017
U.S. Export Control Reform: Impacts and Implications for Controlling the Export of Proliferation-Sensitive Goods and Technologies, A Policy Document for the New President and Congress
Andrea Stricker with David Albright
May 17, 2017
Case Study: U.S. Man Indicted in Larger Iranian Financial Sanctions Busting Scheme
Andrea Stricker
May 3, 2017
Shenyang Machine Tools Company
David Albright
April 13, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Ambitions and Proliferation Risks
Sarah Burkhard, Erica Wenig, David Albright, and Andrea Stricker
March 30, 2017
Case Study: Guilty Plea for Charge of Exporting Metallic Powder to Iran
Andrea Stricker
March 23, 2017
2016
Heavy Water Loophole in the Iran Deal
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
December 21, 2016
Case Study: Two Arrested in Iranian Aircraft Parts Trafficking Scheme, Result of U.S. Sting Operation
Andrea Stricker
December 7, 2016
Case Study: Four Turkish Nationals Indicted for Making Illicit U.S. Financial Transactions
Andrea Stricker
November 30, 2016
Previously Sanctioned Iranian Entities Doing Business in China
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
July 7, 2016
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Attempted Carbon Fiber Procurement
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
July 7, 2016
U.S. Purchase of Iran’s Heavy Water: Encouraging a Dangerous Nuclear Supplier
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
May 23, 2016
Case Study: Nuclear Traffickers Conspired to Procure High Speed Cameras
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
May 19, 2016
The Iran Nuclear Deal’s Procurement Channel: Overcoming Post-Implementation Day Issues
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
April 21, 2016
2015
JCPOA Procurement Channel: Architecture and Issues
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
December 11, 2015
Power Point download
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
September 28, 2015
Additional Taiwan-Based Element of Iranian Military Goods Procurement Network Exposed
David Albright, Andrea Stricker, Daniel Schnur, and Sarah Burkhard
September 16, 2015
Preliminary Assessment of the JCPOA Procurement Channel
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
August 31, 2015
Case Study: Skilled Procurement Ring Charged in Illegally Obtaining Goods for Iran
By Christopher Coughlin and Andrea Stricker
May 5, 2015
Updates to ISIS Illicit Trade Case Studies
Christopher Coughlin and Andrea Stricker
April 1, 2015
2014
Case Study: Iranian Illicit Financing for Quds Force’s Overseas Purchases
David Albright and Jack Dishner
December 17, 2014
Stopping Iran’s Illicit Nuclear Procurement
Ian J. Stewart and Andrea Stricker
December 12, 2014
Provisions to Limit Future Iranian Illicit Procurements for Its Nuclear Programs
David Albright and Olli Heinonen
November 20, 2014
ISIS Note: Further Questions on Sanctioned North Korean Entity
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
November 19, 2014
Iran Admits Illegally Acquiring Goods for its Nuclear Programs
David Albright, Daniel Schnur, and Andrea Stricker
September 10, 2014
Advisory: United States Enforces Existing Sanctions against Key Iranian Company
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
September 9, 2014
Case Study- Serial Proliferator Karl Li: China’s Continued Refusal to Act
David Albright, Andrea Stricker, and Donald Stewart
May 8, 2014
Case Study: Chinese Citizen’s Involvement in the Supply of MKS Pressure Transducers to Iran Preventing a Reoccurrence
Ian J. Stewart, Andrea Stricker, and David Albright
April 30, 2014
Case Study- Suspicious Advertisements for High Quality Maraging Steel The question of Electrovek Steel’s Farsi language web site
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, Donald Stewart, and Andrea Stricker
April 28, 2014
Case Study- Canada Prosecutes Company for Possible Nuclear Related Export to Iran
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
April 24, 2014
Case Study - Chinese National Sought High-Strength Carbon Fiber for China
Donald Stewart and Andrea Stricker
March 5, 2014
Case Study - U.S. Busts Iranian Smuggling Scheme Involving a Nuclear-Related Good
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
January 31, 2014
2013
Case Study - Getting to the Core: United States Charges Iranian with Missile Export Violations
Andrea Stricker
November 4, 2013
Future World of Illicit Nuclear Trade: Mitigating the Threat
David Albright, Andrea Stricker, and Houston Wood
October 1, 2013
Case Study - United States Busts Likely North Korean Transshipment Scheme
Andrea Stricker
May 24, 2013
Ring Magnets for IR-1 Centrifuges
David Albright
February 13, 2013
Case Study - Chinese Salesman Arrested in Pressure Transducer Case
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
January 18, 2013
2012
Aiding the Physics Research Center’s Overseas Procurements: Role of Applied Science Co. and Akebono Boeki Co. November 15, 2012
Appendix: Applied Science Telexes November 15, 2012
United States Prosecutes U.S.-Based Smuggler Working for Iran
Andrea Stricker
October 26, 2012
Closing the Tinners’ Swiss Criminal Case*
David Albright and Michael Rietz**
October 26, 2012
British Bank Accused of Doing Massive Illegal Iran Business: Settles with New York Authorities
Andrea Stricker
August 15, 2012
Major U.S. Sting Operation Arrests Iranian in Nuclear Smuggling Network
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
August 10, 2012
Iranian Smuggling for Military Nuclear Programs: From Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group to the PHRC
David Albright and Paul Brannan
May 16, 2012
Telexes: Front Company Kala Naft
David Albright and Paul Brannan
May 16, 2012
Telexes: Amir Kabir University and Dr. Shahmoradi
David Albright
May 16, 2012
The Telexes: Whole Body Counters and the Physics Research Center
David Albright and Paul Brannan
May 16, 2012
Case Study - U.S. Company Charged with Pressure Transducer Sales: Who Were the End Users? May 14, 2012
Opening the Door to a Solution with Iran
David Albright and Olli Heinonen*
May 9, 2012
Case of Three Tinners Set for Trial: Plea Deal Expected April 25, 2012
Department 70 and the Physics Research Center: Extensive Interest in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technologies
David Albright, Paul Brannan, Mark Gorwitz, and Andrew Ortendahl
March 19, 2012
Appendix for Department 70 March 15, 2012
The Physics Research Center and Iran’s Parallel Military Nuclear Program
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Stricker
February 23, 2012
PHRC telex appendix February 23, 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