Office of Export Enforcement
Office of the United States Department of Commerce
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| 2018 | ZTE ultimately paid $1 billion in penalties and placed an additional $400 million in suspended penalty money in escrow before being removed from the Denied Persons List. |
| April 15 2018 | Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) activated a suspended denial order against ZTE after the company falsely claimed to have disciplined employees responsible for export control violations, when they had actually rewarded them with bonuses. |
| March 2017 | ZTE Corporation reached a settlement agreement with the US government, agreeing to pay $892,360,064 in penalties for illegally shipping US-origin items to Iran and lying to federal investigators. |
| December 2012 | Xun Wang was sentenced to 12 months in prison, received a $100,000 criminal fine, and given one year of probation. In a related civil settlement, Wang agreed to pay a $250,000 civil penalty and was placed on the Denied Persons List for ten years, with five years suspended. |
| December 2012 | Huaxing Construction pleaded guilty, becoming the first Chinese corporate entity to enter a guilty plea in a US criminal export matter. They agreed to pay a $2 million criminal fine (with $1 million suspended), implement an export compliance program, and be subject to multiple third-party audits. |
| October 2011 | Four Corezing International employees (Wong Yuh Lan, Lim Yong Nam, Lim Kow Seng, and Hia Soo Gan Benson) were arrested by Singapore authorities in connection with a US extradition request for illegally exporting 6,000 radio frequency modules to Iran, which were found in improvised explosive device detonators in Iraq. |
| December 2010 | PPG Paints Trading Shanghai pleaded guilty, agreeing to pay a $2 million criminal fine, serve five years of corporate probation, and forfeit $32,319 to the US government. |
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