Clifton Trading Limited

Also Known As: 

Clifton Trading Co Hong Kong

Related Country: 

  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • Taiwan
  • United Kingdom

Address: 

Unit 04-05, 16th Floor, The Broadway, No. 54-62 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
No. 1788, Unit A, 17F, Goodwill Industrial Building, 36-44 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, N.T., Hong Kong

Phone: 

+85260266721

Supplier Web Site: 

bazargan.net

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A Hong Kong-based company; according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has supported Control Afzar Tabriz Co Ltd's procurement of computer numerical control (CNC) machines and equipment for Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries (HESA), an entity subordinate to Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) that manufactures military aircraft and Ababil‑series unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); Ababil-series drones have been used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, used as an alternative consignee and intermediary for procurements on behalf of HESA, in order to obscure the involvement of Control Afzar Tabriz Co in those transactions; Control Afzar Tabriz Co's procurement of technology in support of HESA has been carried out through entities in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Advertises itself as a procurement and shipping company; claims to operate in the retail office equipment industry; claims to have at least five offices worldwide.

Company secretary is Noble Business Consulting Limited, which is associated with an address identified by the U.S. Department of Commerce as posing a high risk of diversion; shares a registered address with Hin Yun Trading Company Limited and Qian Xi Long Trading Co Limited, which were sanctioned by the United States in November 2025 for supporting Iran's procurement of UAV engines.

Director and sole shareholder is British national Nasir Kazeroun.

Company number (Hong Kong) is 2681997; Hong Kong business registration number (BRN) is 69231917.

Incorporated in Hong Kong on April 17, 2018; claims to have been founded in 2012.

Sanctions

Added on July 31, 2025, to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), 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; also subject to the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations, which restricts the use of the U.S. financial system for transactions involving Iranian entities.

Foreign parties facilitating transactions for the entity or otherwise assisting the entity may be subject to U.S. sanctions; foreign financial institutions facilitating transactions for the entity may be prohibited from opening or maintaining correspondent or payable-through accounts in the United States; subject to heightened U.S. export license requirements (with a presumption of denial) due to involvement in activities related to WMD proliferation.

Date Entered: 

June 29, 2026

Date Last Modified: 

June 29, 2026