According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, attempted 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 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.

Uses front companies to acquire foreign technology and components; has used Turkish citizen Ali Canko as a financial intermediary for payments to various international suppliers.

Group is comprised of Tiva Kara, Tiva Darya, and Tiva Polymer; registration ID number is 878.