NetApp Investigated by U.S. Department of Commerce

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NetApp Investigated by U.S. on Syria Surveillance System Sale
U.S. regulators are investigating how a multi-million-dollar storage system from NetApp Inc. came to underpin a sweeping Internet-surveillance system being built last year for the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security is conducting the probe, according to department spokesman Eugene Cottilli. "The investigation is ongoing," he said.

NetApp published this statement on March 3, 2012:

NetApp Condemns Any Unlawful Shipments to Syria
NetApp actively employs comprehensive policies, procedures, and systems to ensure compliance with U.S. export control and economic sanction laws and regulations. We condemn any potential use of our storage in Syria, and we are deeply concerned about press articles published in 2011 to this effect. We treat this with the utmost seriousness, and are engaged in a vigorous effort to determine the true facts. NetApp notified the U.S. government that it is conducting a review and that it will cooperate fully with any inquiry. While this review is under way, and until the facts have been established, we are not able to discuss it publicly.