Dual U.S.-Iranian national Jamshid Ghomi, owner and CEO of Tehran-based Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd. (FPR), was arrested for supplying U.S.-origin computer networking, security, and encryption equipment to Iranian customers, including Iran’s nuclear and military establishments. From 2011 to 2015, Ghomi allegedly used eBay and PayPal accounts to make more than 400 purchases of computer-networking equipment and directed the goods to intermediaries in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). From 2014 to 2018, he allegedly arranged the smuggling of more than 250 metric tons of networking equipment into Iran through freight forwarders and intermediaries in Dubai. In 2023, he allegedly purchased U.S.-origin networking equipment from U.S. suppliers and routed the equipment through a UAE front company to FPR in Iran. FPR allegedly supplied U.S.-origin computer networking equipment from 2017 to 2023 to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), and supplied U.S.-origin networking, security, and encryption equipment from 2014 to 2022 to Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) and affiliated entities, including Iran Computer Industries.

According to the criminal complaint against him, Ghomi directed UAE-based co-conspirators to keep his name off shipping paperwork, omit invoices from shipments bound for Iran, and hide U.S.-origin computer equipment inside larger shipments. He also allegedly laundered proceeds from FPR’s Iranian sales into the United States through trading companies and exchange houses in the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Turkey, and the UAE. From 2011 to 2024, he allegedly moved more than $15 million from Iran into U.S. bank accounts and a construction escrow account and falsely reported the funds to the Internal Revenue Service as a foreign inheritance.