The U.S. Justice Department charged the Iranian online financial services company Payment24 and two of its executives, Seyed Sajjad Shahidian and Vahid Vali, with conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, money laundering, identity theft, and wire fraud. According to an indictment unsealed in a federal court in Minnesota, the charges relate to transactions conducted with U.S. companies between 2009 and 2018, in violation of U.S. economic sanctions. The transactions involved purchases of computer software, software licenses, and computer servers. To execute the scheme, Shahidian and Vali misrepresented the destination of the purchases to U.S. companies. Shahidian was extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States and Vali remains at large.