Committee On Foreign Business Affairs For National Security
The Committee On Foreign Business Affairs For National Security is a committee of the Imperial Security Council of the Empire Of Makko Oko. The committee was formed on December 19th, 2022, after an ISOC audit of a foreign bidder turned up foreign government influence and relations. The Committee is charged with researching and investigating the role of foreign businesses on national security affairs.
Composition
The committee is permanent and is composed of people that can change yearly based on council membership changes. The current members are:
| Affiliation | Individual | Appointed and sworn |
Term expires | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director of the NSS (Former as of April 2023) | John Rexroad | December 19th, 2022 | December 19th, 2023 | Committee Chair |
| Senior Secret Agent of the Fraud & Counterespionage Unit, NSS | Vera Marrero | December 19th, 2022 | December 19th, 2023 | |
| Director of the Office of Special Investigations, International Security Unit, MOJ | Nick Kuhns | December 19th, 2022 | December 19th, 2023 | |
| Director of the ISOC | Robert Raminez | December 19th, 2022 | December 19th, 2023 | |
| Director of the FIS | Albert Schaefer | December 19th, 2022 | December 19th, 2023 |
Former Members
Activities
Bliksem Internet Probe
The first action that the committee took on was that of the highly controversial bid placement by Bliksem Internet, an international ISP out of the Controlist Ferwerter Union, to attempt to expand operations to the Phoenix Islands. The investigation started immediately after the formation of the committee, with talks from both sides stretching months. The probe's results, published on September 16th, 2023, found that while the company had direct ties to the government, there was only benefit and they then approved the bid to be placed. By then, the bid had already ended, according to the Phoenix Islands Government.
