Private Placement Investors Association (PPiA) OFAC/Sanctions Due Diligence Questionnaire for Borrowers (Last Update: 7/22/15)

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Private Placement Investors Association (PPiA) OFAC/Sanctions Due Diligence Questionnaire for Borrowers (Last Update: 7/22/15) Involvement of Sanctioned Parties: 1) Is any Relevant Party or Relevant Person listed on (or owned or controlled by a person or entity listed on) the SDN List or the Consolidated Sanctions List? If yes, please identify such party(s)/person(s) and explain in detail. 2) Is any Relevant Party or Relevant Person a citizen of, or resident in (or organized under the laws of) a Sanctioned Geography or a Sensitive Geography? If yes, please identify such party(s)/person(s) and explain in detail. 3) Is any Relevant Party owned or controlled by the government (or a government agency) of a Sanctioned Geography or a Sensitive Geography, or by a person or entity resident in (or organized under the laws of) a Sanctioned Geography or a Sensitive Geography? If yes, please explain in detail. 4) Is any Relevant Party or Relevant Person subject to (or owned or controlled by a person/entity subject to) an enforcement action or penalty under CISADA or other U.S. economic or trade sanctions laws (including U.S. "secondary" sanctions targeted at non-u.s. companies)? If yes, please explain in detail. Business Dealings: 5) Please state the intended use of proceeds from this offering. 6) Does any Relevant Party conduct business with (or have dealings with/involving) a Sanctioned Geography, a Sensitive Geography, or a person/entity named on the SDN List, Consolidated Sanctions Lists or similar lists, or with a party which has been the target of secondary sanctions such as CISADA (collectively a "Sanctioned Party )? a. If yes, then please answer the following questions: i. State the nature of the business or dealings conducted, including the Sanctioned Geography, Sensitive Geography or Sanctioned Party involved. If applicable, identify any license or waivers that were obtained in connection with such business activities, such as an OFAC license or waiver. ii. Are any products of U.S. origin sold to Sanctioned Parties, or used in goods that are sold to Sanctioned Parties. If yes, please explain. iii. How long have such activities been conducted? Do the Relevant Parties plan to continue these activities? If these activities are winding down, by what date will the Relevant

Parties have permanently discontinued such activities? iv. Please state how many revenues, assets, and employees are/were associated with such business or dealings, and express these figures as percentages of total revenues, assets and employees, respectively. (List figures as of the most recent financial reporting period, and report revenues on a last 12 months basis.) NOTE: To aid in answering question 6(a) an illustrative answer is attached. Although this example is intentionally succinct, detailed answers are encouraged in order to minimize extensive follow-up questions from investors. Also, please create a separate line-item for each type of business dealing with a Sanctioned Party or in a Sanctioned Geography or Sensitive Geography. b. If no, does any Relevant Party have any plans to begin or initiate business with (or involving) any such geography or party? If yes, then please describe intended business activities and scope in detail; otherwise, please skip to question 7. 7) Does any Relevant Party have unfunded commitments or plans to conduct business with Sanctioned Parties? If yes, then please describe, including the nature of the business to be conducted, the size of the commitment, and the name of the Sanctioned Geography or Sanctioned Parties involved. If no, then please skip to question 8. 8) Does any Relevant Party conduct business in a Sensitive Industry that was not described previously? a. If no, please skip to question 9. b. If yes, please describe such activities and answer the following additional questions: Additional Questions: i. Does each of the Relevant Parties have policies and procedures in place to ensure compliance with applicable economic and trade sanctions, and to ensure that it will not engage in activities that would render itself subject to retaliatory penalty under CISADA or other U.S. economic or trade sanctions laws (including U.S. "secondary" sanctions targeted at non-u.s. companies)? If yes, please describe the policies and procedures. ii. Does each of the Relevant Parties routinely screen its business counterparties against lists of prohibited parties, such as the SDN or Consolidated Sanctions Lists (promulgated by the U.S.), the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (promulgated by the U.K.), or any other relevant lists? If yes, please describe the screening process. 9) Are the Relevant Parties subject to U.S. reporting requirements (Forms 10-Q, 10-K, 20-F, etc.)? a. If no, please skip to question 10. b. If yes, have such entities made any disclosure under the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (ITRA s219) or Section 13(r) of the Securities Act of 1934? If so, then please provide copies of such disclosures.

10) Please disclose any other information, not disclosed in response to the prior questions, that is or may be considered relevant to Sanctioned Geographies, Sensitive Geographies, Sanctioned Activities, Sensitive Industries, Sanctioned Parties, U.S. Economic Sanctions Laws, or sanctions-related inquiries or trade restrictions, including those that may have been issued by the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).

Definitions for PPiA OFAC/Sanctions Due Diligence Questionnaire CISADA: The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-195, 124 Stat. 1312) signed into law by the U.S. President on July 1, 2010 Consolidated Sanctions List: A list published by OFAC containing sanctioned parties under the FSE List, the Sectoral Sanctions (SSI) List, Part 561, Non-SDN Iranian Sanctions Act List and the Palestinian Legislative Council List FSE: Any person or entity listed on the Foreign Sanctions Evaders List, published by OFAC OFAC: The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury Relevant Parties: Any and all of the issuer(s), guarantor(s), and the issuers' and guarantors' subsidiaries, parent companies, affiliates, joint ventures and controlled entities Relevant Persons: Any and all officers, directors, partners, principals, and primary beneficial owners of the Relevant Parties Sanctioned Activities: Activities which are restricted pursuant to sanctions or other economic measures imposed by the U.S., U.K., E.U. or Canada Sanctioned Geographies: One or more of the following countries or regions (to be updated from time to time) which are subject to economic and trade sanctions, or in which sanctioned parties are found: Burma (Myanmar), Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria Sensitive Geographies: One or more of the following countries or regions (to be updated from time to time), considered to be potentially high risk areas: Afghanistan, Belarus, Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Ivory Coast (Cote d Ivoire), Liberia, Libya, Nauru, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Sao Tome & Principe, Somalia, Thailand, Turkish Republic of Northern Cypress (TRNC), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe Sensitive Industries: Business activity associated with one or more of the following industries (to be updated from time to time): nuclear; weapons, ballistics, munitions or other armaments (whether manufacturers, dealers or intermediaries); petroleum, petrochemicals, or refined petroleum products; natural gas; joint oil and gas development ventures outside of a Sanctioned Geography or Sensitive Geography, but involving Government of any Sanctioned Geography or Sensitive Geography; shipping, ship building or ports; automotive; exchange of U.S. bank notes for the currency of or sovereign debt/government bonds of a Sanctioned Geography or Sensitive Geography; privately held paper-currency-intensive businesses, such as money transfer agents, money brokers, casinos, check cashers, or pawnbrokers; uranium or precious metals, graphite, or raw or

semi-finished metals, such as aluminum, steel, and coal; privately held dealers in precious metals or jewels; and software for industrial purposes related to the industries described herein Sanctioned Parties: Defined in the Business Dealings section of this questionnaire (See question #6.) SDN: Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, as designated by OFAC

OFAC Questionnaire--Sample Answer for Question 6(a) Number of Sensitive Geography Assets (at Employees Sanctioned Geography, Applicable Waiver Product of U.S. Origin Duration of Activity & Last 12 Mos. % of Total Last Reporting % of Total (at Last % of Total Sanctioned Activity Description or Sanctioned Party or License? Involved? Future Intentions Revenues Revenues Period) Assets Reporting Period)Employees Subsidiary "ABC Corp." manufactures automobiles in Iran None Yes--brakes & filters used in We have conducted business 100 million 5% 135 million 3% 80 6% Germany for sale into Iran. the autos are sourced from in Iran for 12 years, but intend the U.S. (~$85 content/vehicle) to sell or wind-down this business within the next 18 months. The Guarantor has a 49% interest in a JV ("LMNP Myanmar None No This JV has conducted business in 20 million 1% 30 million 0.7% 6 0.5% Corp.") that manufactures lipstick in Poland for Russia Myanmar for over 20 years and 40 million 2% 50 million 1.1% 25 2% sale into Myanmar, Russia, and Belarus. Belarus plans to do so going forward. 7 million 0.4% 10 million 0.2% 2 0.2% Subsidiary ("XYZ Corp.") divested one ship in Islamic Republic of Iran None No This was an inadvertent, one-time $14 million N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A its fleet to a brokerage company that, in turn, Shipping Lines event. New screening procedures sold the ship to IRISL. have subsequently been adopted to prevent future sales to blocked persons through intermediaries, including performing Google searches on business counterparties and checking them against the SDN and Consolidated Sanctions Lists as well as Her Majesty's Treasury List.