1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Sanctions Violators Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In March 2016 Chinese electronics company Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment (ZTE) was found to have breached United States sanctions laws by exporting products with American-made components to Iran in violation of the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. part 730 et seq.) and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (31 C.F.R. part 560). (2) In March 2017 the Department of Commerce announced that ZTE also shipped 283 microprocessors, servers, and routers to North Korea in violation of United States law. (3) The Department of Commerce found that ZTE had knowingly made false statements and misled investigators about its business with Iran and North Korea, with Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., stating, The results of this investigation and the unprecedented penalty reflects ZTE’s egregious scheme to evade U.S. law and systematically mislead investigators. . (4) The Department of Commerce found that ZTE employees had destroyed, removed, or sanitized all materials concerning transactions or other activities relating to ZTE’s Iran business that post-dated March 2012; deleted on a nightly basis all of the team’s emails to conceal the team’s activities