Supplier: Li Fang Wei

A Chinese national born on September 18, 1972; principal and commercial manager of LIMMT Economic and Trade Company, Ltd. (LIMMT - see separate entity record); added to the Specially Designated National (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on April 7, 2009, freezing his assets under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibiting transactions with U.S. parties, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems; according to an April 2009 U.S. Department of the Treasury press release, for "several years, Lee, acting on behalf of LIMMT, has sold needed goods such as graphite to entities involved with Iran's missile program"; indicted, along with LIMMT, on April 7, 2009, by the District Attorney's Office of New York County on charges relating to the misuse of Manhattan banks and the proliferation of illicit missile and nuclear technology to Iran; according to the indictment, used aliases and shell companies to evade U.S. Treasury Department sanctions against LIMMT and continue transactions involving the U.S. financial system; according to the indictment, sold "weapons materials" to subsidiary organizations of Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO - see separate entity record), including Amin Industrial Group, Khorasan Metallurgy Industries, Shahid Sayyade Shirazi Industries, and Yazd Metallurgy Industries (see separate entity records); according to the indictment, sent an invoice in June 2008 to an agent of Amin Industrial Complex for 24,500 kilograms of maraging steel rods; according to the indictment, acknowledged receipt of payment in 2007 for eight pieces of steel plates sold to Khorasan Metallurgy Industries; according to the indictment, in April 2007 sent an invoice to an agent of Shahid Sayyade Shirazi Industries confirming the sale of 450 metric tons of furnace electrodes with 4TPI nipples; according to the indictment, in 2007 communicated with agents of Aban Commercial and Industrial Co. (see separate entity record) over the sale and shipment of 2,000 kilograms of tungsten metal powder, 400 pieces of tungsten-copper alloy plates, and 200 pieces of graphite cylinders for an electrical discharge machine (EDM-15); allegedly used the bank account of Sunny Minerals Company Limited to fraudulently access the U.S. financial system and transact with Iranian entities.