Mohammad Magham

Has worked with Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) director Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabachi on financial management of Navid Composite

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:
Managing director of Iran-based Navid Composite, a subsidiary of U.N.-sanctioned Sanam Industries Group;

Has worked with Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) director Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabachi on financial management of Navid Composite;

Has contracted with Mostafa Zahedi and Mabrooka Trading to procure goods from foreign suppliers for carbon fiber production operations;

Has contracted with other Iran-based companies for the supply of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fiber for Navid Composite’s production facility in Rasht, Iran;

According to the U.S. Treasury Department:
Zahedi and E.O. 13382-designated Hossein Pournaghshband, the Director of Mabrooka Trading, have procured for Mohammad Magham, the Managing Director of Navid Composite, and Navid Composite’s PAN-based carbon fiber production line since at least 2014. Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers are the chemical precursor of high-quality carbon fiber. Carbon fiber, found in high-tech and common daily applications, is used in missiles and solid propellant rocket motors. Zahedi used Pournaghshband to procure goods from foreign suppliers ultimately destined for Magham;

Mohammad Magham is designated for acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Navid Composite;

Since late 2014, Magham, Navid Composite’s Managing Director, worked with Zahedi and Mabrooka Trading to procure goods from foreign suppliers for use in Navid Composite’s carbon fiber production operations;

Navid Composite and Magham also contracted with other Iran-based companies in mid-2015 to supply PAN fiber. The PAN fiber was for Navid Composite’s production facility in Rasht, Iran. Magham also worked directly with E.O. 13382-designated AIO Director Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabachi to manage the financials of Navid Composite. Ketabachi was designated in January 2016 pursuant to E.O. 13382 for acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of AIO;

Involved In:
Missile Weapon Program

Country:
Iran

Nationality:
Iranian

Passport Number:
H22452336

Born:
16 Sep 1970

Reason for the color:
» Added on February 3, 2017 to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), freezing his assets under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibting transactions with U.S. parties, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems;