Microsoft has agreed to a settlement with the US government over export sanction violations which the company voluntarily disclosed.
The US maintains a list of technologies that cannot be exported to certain countries deemed hostile or a threat to national security. According to Reuters, Microsoft voluntarily disclosed the violations after it discovered them.
“Microsoft takes export control and sanctions compliance very seriously, which is why after learning of the screening failures and infractions of a few employees, we voluntarily disclosed them to the appropriate authorities,” a company spokesperson told the outlet.
For its part, the US Treasury Department said Microsoft’s behavior was “non-egregious and voluntarily self-disclosed.”
The Redmond company agreed to a settlement of roughly $3 million for violations pertaining to Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia from 2012 to 2019.
