“The indictment of these four individuals highlights the FBI's efforts to identify and neutralize blatant attempts to circumvent U.S. technology, Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics sought to undermine the national security of the United States by furthering their military and civilian capabilities,” said Raymond Duda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Seattle Field Office. “As the true end-user of this dual-use U.S. The indictment also charges the four men with smuggling goods from the United States to Iran. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
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We will not tolerate individuals or business organizations that seek to harm our national security, no matter their role or where they are located in the world.”Īccording to the indictment, Sahebali Moulaei, 56, Mohsen Faghihi, 54, Arnold Kaunang, 26, and Alfrets Kaunang, 55, conspired to export United States-origin airplane parts to a state-owned enterprise in Iran, without receiving a license from the U.S. “The charges against these four individuals represent the dismantling of an entire procurement network, from the brokers to the true end user. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “The transshipment to Iran of desired United States goods facilitates our adversary’s ability to engage in malicious and dangerous activity against the United States,” said G. aircraft parts to Iran, in violation of U.S. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment late yesterday charging two citizens of Iran and two citizens of Indonesia with 19 counts related to exporting U.S.