Sole shareholder of the Spanish company Advance Electrical and Industrial Technologies SL (AEIT); according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, arranges to facilitate payments on behalf of Neka Novin, an entity linked to procurement of equipment and material for Iran’s nuclear program; 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.

A Spanish citizen; Spanish passport number is AAD225212 and expires May 12, 2020; born on August 27, 1944.