Former member of the board of directors of the German firm DF Deutsche Forfait Aktiengesellschaft (Deutsche Forfait); according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, facilitated oil deals in circumvention of oil sanctions for the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), an entity determined to be an agent or affiliate of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on February 6, 2014, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems; removed from the SDN list in January 2016 as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; born on May 2, 1956.