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Travelocity fined for Cuba trips
15 August 2007 Travelocity, the online travel company based in Texas, the United States, has been fined $182,750 for booking trips between the United States and Cuba in violation of the trade embargo enforced by Washington since 1962. In the first such crackdown on a major online travel service, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said Travelocity violated the embargo 1,458 times between January 1998 and April 2004. Travelocity provided travel-related services in which Cuba or Cuban nationals had an interest by arranging air travel and hotel reservations to, from, with or within Cuba without an OFAC licence, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a statement posted on the Treasury Department’s website. The Office of Foreign Assets Control has granted licences to dozens of travel service providers for approved trips to and from Cuba for everything from academic, religious and journalistic activities to humanitarian projects and visits to immediate family. The Treasury Department did not
provide details, but said that any
person or business that violates
sanctions against Cuba may face civil
or criminal penalties. A spokeswoman
for the Treasury Department declined
to say if the Travelocity
investigation had been closed.
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