Former US Sanctions Official Lobbying on Behalf of Blacklisted Chinese Surveillance Company
The Washington lobbying firm that represents a Chinese surveillance company recently hired a former U.S. sanctions officer to advise it on U.S. sanctions weeks after the Chinese company was added to a U.S. blacklist, Axios reported July 7. The firm,…
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Mercury Public Affairs, which lobbies on behalf of Hikvision, last month hired Peter Kucik as managing director of its D.C. office, it said in a press release. Kucik was formerly a senior sanctions policy adviser at the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Hikvision was designated a Chinese military company and added to an investment ban list last year (see 2011130026). Hikvision declined to comment, and Mercury didn’t comment.