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ON JUNE 21, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 12 Kaspersky Lab executives, who were supposedly working in Russia’s technology sector. Then, the US Department of Commerce put AO Kaspersky Lab, OOO Kaspersky Group (Russia), and Kaspersky Labs Limited (UK) on its ‘Entity List’, meaning no US company could do business with them.
Finally, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) banned the company from selling software or providing updates. As such, it wasn’t surprising that on July 15, Kaspersky announced it would be winding down its US operations from July 20.