The US Treasury on Friday sanctioned Iranian tycoon Ali Ansari, citing his links to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards, as part of a broader action targeting Iran’s financial networks.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added Ansari, seven other individuals and five companies to its sanctions blacklist. The entities include several Iranian exchange houses and companies based in Dubai, Hong Kong and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The six designated entities include Lavasani and Partners General Partnership Company and Mohammad Darbani and Partners Exchange General Partnership Company in Tehran, and Mohsen Khandan and Partners General Partnership Company, also known as Khandan Exchange, in Shiraz. The other three are CDM Trading Limited in Hong Kong, Naba Alzaki Raw Materials Trading LLC in Dubai and Smart Global Limited in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
OFAC also designated Smart Global Limited, a Saint Kitts-based holding company linked to Ansari, while issuing General License Y to permit the wind-down of transactions involving the firm.
Ansari, who holds Iranian, Cypriot and Saint Kitts and Nevis citizenship, was designated under counterterrorism and Iran-related sanctions authorities.
The other seven sanctioned individuals were listed in Iran and linked by OFAC to the three exchange companies.
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