According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, assisted the Iran-based Tiva Sanat Group in its attempts to procure and reverse engineer a weapons-capable fast boat to be used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Navy; added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on February 6, 2014, 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; has served as a financial intermediary for payments from the Tiva Sanat Group to various international suppliers.

A Turkish citizen; Turkish passport number is U 04765836; personal ID card number is 58786069032; alternate Italian personal ID card number is AK 8136255; born on January 1, 1960.