Global Merchant

A Dubai-based shipping and freight forwarding company run by Mehrdad Ansari, who was indicted in the United States in June 2011, along with Susan Yip and Mehrdad Foomanie, for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to ship thousands of U.S.-origin military and dual-use parts to Iran without required export licenses

Status:Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation

Risk Level:99%

May harm your business future. Persons or entities that engage in transactions with this entity will be exposed to sanctions or subject to an enforcement action.

Working with this entity means supporting Iranian Regime, Regime Terrorist Activities & development of WMD

Info:
A Dubai-based shipping and freight forwarding company run by Mehrdad Ansari, who was indicted in the United States in June 2011, along with Susan Yip and Mehrdad Foomanie, for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to ship thousands of U.S.-origin military and dual-use parts to Iran without required export licenses;

Was allegedly used by Ansari to transship the goods, including items that can be used in nuclear weapons, missile guidance, secure radio communications, electronic warfare, radio jamming, and radar warning and surveillance systems, through Dubai to end users in Iran;

Services include international freight forwarding, customs clearance processing, inland haulage services through Iran, warehousing, and distribution;

Mehrdad Ansari, 40, a resident of the United Arab Emirates and Germany, was convicted by a federal jury in May 2021 for his role in a scheme to obtain military sensitive parts for Iran in violation of the Iranian Trade Embargo.;

Involved In:
Nuclear Weapon Program
Missile Weapon Program

Also Known As:
Global Merchant LLC

Country:
United Arab Emirates

Reason for the color:
» Iranian National Sentenced for Illegally Exporting Military Sensitive Items;