Tech titan is arrested at $35m California mansion over selling US equipment to Iran's military and nuclear programs
A California tech boss accused of arming Iran's nuclear and military machine has been dragged from his $35 million ocean-view mansion in handcuffs.
Jamshid Ghomi, 63, a dual Iranian-US national, sold sophisticated American networking, security and encryption gear to the regime for more than a decade, prosecutors allege.
He is charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, with the equipment flowing to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the regime's Ministry of Defense, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
He and his co-conspirators referred to Iran as 'Motherland' in their private messages.
Ghomi made more than 400 purchases on his eBay and PayPal accounts from 2011 to 2015, which were routed through intermediaries in the United Arab Emirates.
More than 250 metric tons of networking kit was smuggled into Iran between 2014 and 2018 using freight forwarders in Dubai.
Ghomi allegedly used his company, Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh (FPR), as the vehicle for the smuggling operation, with annual sales topping $10 million.
He told the IRS the more than $15 million he moved from Iran into US accounts was a foreign inheritance, with the cash allegedly laundered through shell companies in the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Turkey and the UAE. …
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