Spanish police seized 9 U.S.-made Bell-112 military transport helicopters and aviation spare parts, and arrested 5 Spanish businessmen suspected of attempting to illegally export the seized materials to Iran. The police also arrested three Iranians accused of traveling to Spain to negotiate their purchase. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said that the Iran-bound helicopters, which had been stashed in industrial warehouses in Barcelona and Madrid, were purchased in Israel. According to the police, the aviation spare parts were earmarked for transport to Venezuela. The export of the helicopters and spare parts, which were valued at $140 million, is subject to both Spanish and European Union controls and is prohibited by the United Nations.

California resident and Iranian national Davoud Baniameri pleaded guilty on May 31, 2011 in U.S. District Court to attempting to illegally export to Iran 10 connector adapters for the TOW and TOW2 missile systems in 2009. He was sentenced to 51 months’ imprisonment on August 12, 2011. One of Baniameri’s two co-defendants, Andro Telemi, pleaded guilty on July 26, 2012 to a felony charge of trying to illegally export missile parts to Iran. Telemi faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran who allegedly assisted Baniameri with the attempted export of the missile components. The other co-defendant, Syed Majid Mousavi, was the intended recipient of the exported materials. Mousavi, an Iranian citizen, remains at large and is believed to be living in Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and 15 affiliates were indicted in New York state court for illegally funneling more than $60 million through the American banking system since 2008. IRISL and its co-defendants were allegedly able to circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iran by falsifying records and transacting through shell companies established in countries such as Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. Prosecutors said IRISL needed access to U.S. banks to compete in the shipping sector, which primarily does business in U.S. currency. Banks deceived by the scheme included JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America-though the banks are not accused of any wrongdoing. The United States believes IRISL is integral to Iran's efforts to obtain banned technology for its nuclear and missile programs. Though IRISL was sanctioned by the United States in 2008, this is the first time it has faced criminal charges in U.S. courts. The New York District Attorney acknowledged the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control for its role in uncovering the scheme.

New York resident, Jeng "Jay" Shih, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment and his company, Sunrise Technologies and Trading Corporation, was sentenced to 24 months’ corporate probation on February 17, 2012, after having pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court the previous October to conspiring to illegally export U.S.-origin computers to Iran. From 2007 through April 2011, Shih and Sunrise conspired with a company operating in Dubai and Tehran, whose primary business involved purchasing U.S.-origin computer equipment on behalf of Iranian customers, to illegally export computer equipment controlled for anti-terrorism reasons to Iran without the required export licenses. A civil settlement with the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control requires Shih and his company forfeit $1.25 million. According to a related agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, Shih and his company will also be denied export privileges for ten years if any further violations occur during a ten-year probationary period.

Five individuals and four companies were indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States, smuggling, illegally exporting U.S. goods, including defense articles, to Iran, making false statements, and obstruction of justice. According to the indictment, between June 2007 and February 2008, the defendants fraudulently purchased 6,000 radio frequency modules from a Minnesota company and illegally exported the modules, via Singapore, to Iran. Some of the components were later found in unexploded improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq. The defendants include Hossein Larijani, Wong Yuh Lan, Lim Yong Nam, Lim Kow Seng, and Hia Soo Gan Benson. The companies charged include Paya Electronics Complex, an Iranian company, and Singapore-based Opto Electronics Pte, Ltd., NEL Electronics Pte. Ltd., and Corezing International Pte. Ltd. The indictment was returned in September 2010 and unsealed in October 2011. Seng, Nam, Hia, and Wong were arrested in October 2011, in Singapore, in connection with a U.S. extradition request. They currently await extradition to the United States. Hossein Larijani remains at large. Fifteen entities linked to this conspiracy, including the five defendants, have also been added to the U.S. Commerce Department's Entity List, which imposes a licensing requirement on the export of any item subject to Commerce regulation, with a presumption of denial. Larijani may have connections to Majid Kakavand, an accused Iranian procurement agent who has been indicted in the United States for illegally exporting U.S. goods to Iran, including to Iranian military entities involved in nuclear and ballistic missile work.

Between May 25, 2008 and December 21, 2009, Ramin Pouladian-Kari, director of GTC Associates, a British company, worked with Iran Tablo Company in Tehran to export 361 dual-use electrical switchgears to Iran via a company in Dubai. He was denied a license for the exports by British licensing authorities. One shipment of switchgears was exported; two other shipments were seized by British authorities before leaving the country. Dr. Pouladian-Kari was originally found guilty on December 12, 2011, by the U.K. Central Criminal Court on charges of illegally exporting to Iran goods that could have been used to make weapons of mass destruction. Also found guilty was Arbrene Hussain, a company employee who helped with paperwork for the shipments. The conviction was quashed on appeal in February 2013 due to a wrong decision to discharge a juror or jury because of the "real possibility of jury unconscious bias."

David Levick, a 50-year-old Australian national, and his Sydney-based company ICM Components Inc., have been indicted for conspiring to defraud the United States and for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Arms Export Control Act. Between 2007 and 2008, Levick allegedly arranged for shipment from the United States to Iran, via Australia, of shock mounted light assemblies and precision pressure transducers. Levick also sought U.S.-origin goods, on behalf of an Iranian trading company, which are classified as defense articles by the U.S. government, including VG-34 Series Miniature Vertical Gyroscopes (used to control the pitch and roll of missiles and torpedoes), and K2000 Series Servo Actuators (used for aircraft steering). The indictment was returned in May 16, 2011 and unsealed in October 2011. Levick could face five years in prison for conspiracy, 20 years in prison for each of the four counts of violating IEEPA, and the forfeiture of all proceeds from these violations. Levick remains at large.

Richard Phillips was sentenced to 92 months in prison on June 21, 2012 after pleading guilty to attempting to export carbon fiber from the United States to Iran without obtaining the required license, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In October 2011, Phillips agreed to export a spool of aerospace-grade carbon fiber to Iran via the Philippines in response to an online advertisement posted by an undercover U.S. federal agent. Although the undercover agent warned Phillips that the export of the carbon fiber was illegal, Phillips proceeded with the transaction. Phillips was arrested after taking delivery of the carbon fiber.

Parviz Khaki, a 43 year old citizen of Iran, and Zongcheng Yi, a resident of China, were indicted on July 12, 2012 for allegedly participating in a conspiracy between October 2008 and January 2011 to export to Iran U.S.-origin items used to construct gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment, without obtaining the required licenses. Khaki and Yi allegedly attempted to export 20 tons of C-350 maraging steel, pressure transducers, and vacuum pumps and accessories to Iran from the United States. Khaki also allegedly conspired to export 20 tons of 7075-O aluminum alloy rods with a diameter of 80 mm, 20 tons of 7075-T6 aluminum alloy rods with a diameter of 150 mm, Arnokrome III magnetic tape, mass spectrometers, magnetic gauging equipment, a TCH600 nitrogen/hydrogen/oxygen analyzer, and radioactive materials including barium-133, europium-152, cobalt-57, and cadmium-109. Khaki and Yi successfully exported two twister speed lathes and nickel alloy 120 wire from the United States to Iran. Khaki was arrested in the Philippines on May 24, 2012 while Yi remains at large. The maximum potential sentence that Khaki and Yi face is twenty years in prison for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), twenty years in prison for each IEEPA violation count, five years in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States, ten years in prison for each smuggling count, and twenty years in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering.