Supplier: Europalace 2000
| Exporting Country: |
| Russia |
| Company/Individual: |
| Europalace 2000 |
| Also Known As: |
Evropalas-2000 |
| Program: |
| Missile |
| Date of Iran-related Activity: |
| Late 1990s |
| Address: |
| Moscow, Russia |
| Text: |
| Listed in the context of assistance to Iran's missile program in a July 2005 early warning document distributed by the German government to industry; sanctioned by the U.S. Department of State on July 30, 1998, for engaging in proliferation activities related to Iran's missile programs; all U.S. sanctions were lifted on April 1, 2004; between July 1998 and November 2004, present on the U.S. Department of Commerce "Entity List" of end-users whose activities pose "a risk of diverting exported and reexported items into programs related to weapons of mass destruction"; placed on the Entity List when an investigation for suspected export control violations involving weapons of mass destruction and missile technology was being carried out by the Russian Government; the investigation reportedly concluded that Europalace-2000 and the MOSO company attempted to illegally export stainless steel to Iran in 1998; 22 tons of steel alloy suitable for Scud missile fuel tanks were reportedly intercepted in Azerbaijan in spring 1998 at the Iranian border; reportedly, the steel was bought in Spain by MOSO; reportedly, Europalace-2000 was labeled as the shipper and the grade of steel was misrepresented. |
| Date Entered: |
| 1/26/2004 |
| Date Last Modified: |
| 6/18/2007 |