Canadian Firm, Dual Citizens Indicted on Iran Export Charges

October 9, 2017

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Export Practitioner

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  • Canada
  • United States

A federal indictment unsealed on September 6, 2017 charges Canadian firm IC Link Industries LTD and three individuals with unlawfully exporting industrial goods to Iran without the licenses required by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The three individuals charged are dual U.S.-Iranian citizen Parisa Mohamadi, who operated Intelligence Solutions FZCO, an import/export firm registered in the United Arab Emirates; Mohammad Khazrai Shaneivar, a dual Canadian-Iranian citizen who operated IC Link; and Arezoo Hashemnejad Alamdari, an Iranian citizen and IC Link employee residing in both Iran and Canada. Mohamadi is in U.S. custody; Shaneivar and Alamdari are at large. The indictment alleges that Shaneivar and IC Link received orders for U.S.-origin goods from Alamdari and IC Link’s Iranian affiliate on behalf of Iranian customers and used Mohamadi and Intelligent Solutions to ship the goods from the United States to Iran. The orders were primarily for goods used in the energy sector.