Compliance Radar
Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
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What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Google LLC €1.19bn 39 % · 1 case
- Google €890m 29 % · 1 case
- Apple €500m 17 % · 2 cases
- Cadence Design Systems Inc. €120.1m 4 % · 1 case
- Comunicaciones Celulares S.A. (TIGO Guatemala) €102.1m 3 % · 1 case
- Vodafone GmbH €45m 1 % · 1 case
- Free Mobile SAS und Free SAS €42m 1 % · 1 case
- Clearview AI Inc. €30.5m 1 % · 1 case
- Swisscom (Schweiz) AG €19.4m 1 % · 1 case
- Exclusive Networks Corporate SAS €16.1m 1 % · 1 case
- 37 more€68.4m
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €120.1m |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
1 case
28 Jul 2025 Cadence Design Systems Inc.Cadence pleads guilty: chip design software for Chinese military university €120.1m
From 2015 to 2021, the San José provider of chip design software supplied hardware, software and semiconductor IP at least 59 times to the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), a military university on the Entity List, disguised under the alias Central South CAD Center. Cadence pleaded guilty before the US Department of Justice to conspiracy to commit export control violations; criminal penalties of almost 118 million USD and civil penalties of more than 95 million USD imposed by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) result, after crediting, in a net total of more than 140 million USD.
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- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Justice; Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
- Area of law
- Sanctions and export control · Export control and dual-use goods
- Legal basis
- Export Administration Regulations (Entity List); ECRA; Verschwörung zu Exportkontrollverstößen
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 28 Jul 2025
Original amount 140,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Jul 2025.
- DOJ: Cadence Design Systems Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $140 Million for Unlawfully Exporting to Military University in China (28.07.2025) Press release of an authority
- BIS: Cadence Design Systems to Pay $95 Million Penalty to BIS for Unauthorized Exports to Chinese Entities (28.07.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link