A California tech executive is accused of making millions through a decade-long effort to funnel US computer gear to Iran. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged 63-year-old Jamshid Ghomi, a dual US-Iranian citizen and CEO of Tehran-based Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh, with conspiring to violate US sanctions. He appeared in federal court in Santa Ana but didn't enter a plea; arraignment is set for July 13. Prosecutors say that from 2011 to 2023, Ghomi bought American networking, security, and encryption equipment and routed it through middlemen in the United Arab Emirates on to hundreds of Iranian clients, including the Ministry of Defense and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, per ABC News.
Ghomi, whose company pulled in a reported $10 million in annual sales, asked that his name be kept off shipping records, hid US-origin items inside larger loads, and laundered more than $15 million in proceeds into American bank accounts, prosecutors say. Some of that allegedly funded a Newport Coast mansion that cost more than $14 million to build. The government is now moving to seize the property, which Attorney Bill Essayli values at $36 million, per the BBC. He accuses Ghomi of "aiding our declared enemies" and "one of the world's largest state sponsors of terrorism." Arrested at his mansion on Wednesday, Ghomi is charged with conspiracy to violate the International Economic Emergency Powers Act and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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