Icarus Marine

"A company co-owned by a close aide to former apartheid president PW Botha helped Iran evade American sanctions by sneaking a James Bond-style speedboat through South Africa last year.... The US Federal Register published a notice three months after the incident, slapping trade restrictions on the parties allegedly involved. As background, it said the commerce department had sent initial restriction notices to two Iranian entities and a Cape Town company, Icarus Marine, on that Friday, warning them not to proceed with the re-export -- but to no avail. Icarus Marine is a small design consultancy co-owned by its managing director, Shawn de Villiers, and naval architect Gunther Migeotte. The US still regards Icarus Marine as a culprit, as a further notice in June this year placed it and its Norwegian sister company, Icarus Design, on an 'entity list' of persons "acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States." (Mail & Guardian, "How SA company oiled Iran's war machine," 9/24/2010) (http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-09-24-how-sa-company-oiled-irans-war-machine)