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Alireza Atabaki is the managing director of Ansar Exchange. He co-owns Zagros Pardis Kish with Reza Heidari, an individual designated by Treasury in 2017 for acting for or on behalf of, and providing support to, the IRGC-QF. As recently as early 2019, Atabaki has worked with the IRGC-QF and coordinated transactions using an identified IRGC-QF front company;
In 2018, Iran-based Atlas Exchange — also designated — at the behest of Atabaki, paid hundreds of thousands of euros and dirham to companies in Europe and the UAE. In 2018 and 2019, Atabaki worked closely with UAE-based Iranian financial facilitator Reza Sakan and UAE-based Mohammad Vakili, both of whom are being designated. Vakili is affiliated with UAE-based companies Best Leader General Trading LLC and Golden Commodities General Trading LLC. Since at least 2015, Atabaki, in coordination with Iranian financial facilitator Assadollah Seifi, used Vakili and his UAE-based companies as foreign currency procurement and financial facilitation agents to procure and transfer millions of dollars, including in cash;
OFAC designated Ansar Bank pursuant to E.O. 13224 for assisting, sponsoring, or providing financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to or in support of, the IRGC-QF, and for being owned or controlled by the IRGC;
Persons or entities that engage in transactions with this entity will be exposed to sanctions or subject to an enforcement action;
Born:
1961
Country:
Iran
Place of Birth:
Tehran Province, Central Tehran, Iran
Nationality:
Iranian
National ID No.:
0042773296 (Iran)