Iranian Entity: Amin Industrial Complex

www.amincomplex.ir

amin@isiran.com

Added on April 7, 2009 to the Specially Designated National (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), freezing its 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; identified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as an end-user of maraging steel shipments provided by Karl Lee, also known as Li Fangwei (Li Fang Wei - see separate entity record), and front companies affiliated with LIMMT Economic and Trade Company (LIMMT - see separate entity record); allegedly was provided weapons-usable materials by Li Fang Wei and LIMMT, which were indicted 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, Li Fang Wei sent an agent of Amin Industrial Complex in June 2008 an invoice for 24,500 kilograms of maraging steel rods for more than €1.44 million, and the agent subsequently acknowledged that Amin Industrial Complex had paid 50 percent of the purchase price in advance of shipment; according to the indictment, in 2008 had the same agent and shared the same address, phone number and fax number as Khorasan Metallurgy Industries (see separate entity record); described by the U.S. Department of the Treasury an as entity that is owned or controlled by or acts or purports to act on behalf of the Defense Industries Organization (DIO - see separate entity record); manufactures coolers and air conditioners; manager reportedly Mahmoud Nourbakhsh; reportedly founded in 1991; company registration number reportedly 2497.