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Mustafa Oveici, an Iranian executive for Mahan Air;
The United States Department of Commerce has placed Mahan on its Denied Parties List and Mustafa Oveici on the Entity List;
U.S. authorities accuse Sunarko Kuntjoro, his relatives, and his companies of coordinating with Mustafa Oveici, a top executive at the Iranian airline Mahan Air, to move U.S.-origin goods to Iran between March 2011 and July 2018;
On December 10, 2019, a U.S. grand jury indicted the Indonesian businessman Sunarko Kuntjoro and three companies affiliated with him—PT Antasena Kreasi, PT Kandiyasa Energi Utama, and PT MS Aero Support—on charges of violating the IEEPA and a host of other U.S. laws. Kuntjoro and Oveici’s plot seems to have followed the same basic outline used in the IAMI case. Kuntjoro ordered goods from U.S. companies for delivery to third countries, in this case Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand, which he described as the final destination of the goods. He then transshipped the items to Iran. Using similar methods of obfuscation, Kuntjoro and Oveici sent parts from Mahan Air’s aircraft in Iran for repairs in the United States;
Mahan Air is subject to a string of U.S. sanctions. The Treasury first designated the company in 2011 “for providing financial, material, and technological support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF),” a wing of Iran’s military with ties to terrorist groups. In the last year, the U.S. State Department has also sanctioned Mahan Air for transporting export-controlled materials relevant to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs;
Involved In:
Nuclear Weapon Program
Missile Weapon Program
Industry:
Aviation Industry
Country:
Iran
Articles/Reports:
Flying bombs over Europe
Reason for the color:
» Indonesia Citizen and Three Indonesian Companies Charged With Violating U.S. Export Laws and Sanctions against Iran – December 17, 2019;