Ohio Man Sentenced to Prison After Illegally Exporting to Iran
An Ohio man was sentenced to 20 months in prison for illegally exporting gas and oil pipeline parts to Iran for more than a decade, the Justice Department said in an Oct. 24 press release. Behrooz Behroozian used an intermediary…
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company, Sumar Industrial Equipment, to hide the exports, which violated U.S. sanctions on Iran and the Emergency Economic Powers Act, the press release said. Behroozian allegedly exported “manifolds, valves and connectors” used in the pipelines and oil industry, earning about $40,000 per year. Behroozian also owned Dublin-based Comtech International, a self-proclaimed computer parts supplier that instead of computer parts shipped industrial equipment to Behroozian’s company in the United Arab Emirates before it was then exported to Iran.