Item 9B. OTHER INFORMATION.
5K characters. Original on sec.gov ·
Item 9B. OTHER INFORMATION.
Disclosure Pursuant to Section 13(r) of the Exchange Act
Section 219 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 and Section 13(r) of the Exchange Act require an issuer to disclose in its annual and quarterly reports whether it or any of its affiliates have knowingly engaged in certain activities, including specified activities or transactions relating to the Government of Iran (as defined in section 560.304 of title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations) and to persons designated under Executive Order No. 13382 (70 Fed. Reg. 38567). As previously disclosed in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and June 30, 2020 (the “2020 Quarterly Reports”), during the first quarter of 2020, we determined that one of our non-U.S. subsidiaries provided limited hard copy record, electronic media (e.g., CD), box and container storage and handling services during such quarter, and in prior periods since the reporting requirement took effect, to at least one Government of Iran entity and one entity designated under Executive Order No. 13382 - both located outside of Iran. In each case, the customer relationship commenced at a time when U.S. sanctions law did not limit dealings with entities determined to be part of the Government of Iran or designated under Executive Order No. 13382 by non-U.S. entities owned or controlled by U.S. persons. Each relationship automatically continued from year to year without any affirmative step being taken by either party.
We also reported in the 2020 Quarterly Reports that we had notified the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of these limited activities and initiated an internal investigation, and, during that investigation, we had identified two additional customer relationships between the subsidiary in question and entities designated under Executive Order No. 13382 and Executive Order No. 13224, neither of which was active and ongoing during the year ended December 31, 2020. We have been actively cooperating with OFAC in its review of this matter.
During the second quarter of 2020, the subsidiary in question notified both entities with active relationships identified during the first quarter of 2020 of its decision to terminate those relationships. Because we consider property held in storage for these two entities to be blocked property under regulations administered by OFAC, the subsidiary in question continues to hold the boxes and will do so in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. Following termination of the relationships, the subsidiary in question received cash of less than 2,000 British pounds sterling from one of the entities for services provided and invoiced prior to the termination. The subsidiary is treating this money as blocked property. The subsidiary has not engaged in any other activity with the entities during the period covered by this report. Consistent with the disclosure contained in the 2020 Quarterly Reports, we do not intend to continue any activity involving the entities in question.
The gross revenues attributable to the services provided to these entities while the entities were designated under Executive Order No. 13382 and Executive Order No. 13224 were less than 30,000 British pounds sterling in the aggregate. It is not possible to determine the exact amount of profits attributable to these services, but the net profits are less than the associated revenues.
Following the year ended December 31, 2020, we submitted a Final Notice of Voluntary Disclosure (“Final VSD”) with OFAC on January 14, 2021. The Final VSD included a detailed overview of our internal investigation and the remedial measures we have implemented or will be implementing to address the root causes of the potentially violative activity. The Final VSD findings showed that the potential violations were inadvertent. We will continue to cooperate fully with OFAC in its ongoing review of this matter.
We continue to enhance our internal processes and procedures designed to identify transactions associated with restricted parties, such as introducing a Global International Sanctions and Trade Law Policy and engaging a more comprehensive third-party screening provider. We are also supplementing our existing compliance training with the launch of global training on sanctions and restricted parties in the first quarter of 2021. We will continue to review and improve our programs and processes, as necessary or appropriate, to comply with all applicable sanctions laws and to comply with the disclosure requirements of Section 13(r) of the Exchange Act.
| 59 | IRON MOUNTAIN 2020 FORM 10-K |

PART III
Previous: Item 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES. · Next: Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.