“As alleged, Mr. Ghomi spent years exploiting United States financial systems and procurement channels to move controlled equipment to Iran while hiding his activities behind front companies and falsified documentation.” Essayli’s office pointed to shipments of equipment to both the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the country’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics.
The shipments to the atomic energy organization happened between 2017 and 2023. The U.S. State Department sanctioned it in 2020 for failure to meet its nuclear commitments, including exceeded uranium stockpile and enrichment levels, authorities said. Officials also accuse Ghomi’s company of providing U.S. networking, security and encryption equipment to an Iranian ministry that handles the development and manufacturing of its defenses. Those shipments, between 2014 and 2022, included a contract signed by Ghomi that states the buyer is the “Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics — Iran Computer Industries.”
