Microsoft has agreed to pay in excess of $3 million to settle a potential civil liability for a believed 1,339 sanction violations that saw it sell products and services to individuals and companies in countries like Russia.
The more than 1,300 cases took place between July 2012 and April 2019 and saw Microsoft allegedly selling software licenses, activated software licenses, and related services from its US and Ireland servers to “Specially Designated Nationals” and blocked users in Cuba, Iran, Syria, Russia, and the Crimea region of Ukraine.
