Arash Estaki ALIVAND

Iran

1971-12-31

Tehran, Iran

Male

United Arab Emirates

E96089017, Passport

Business

Between 2023 and 2025, Iranian nationals Alireza Derakhshan and Arash Estaki Alivand (Alivand) coordinated to facilitate the purchase of over $100 million worth of cryptocurrency for oil sales for the Iranian government. Alireza Derakhshan and Arash Estaki Alivand used a network of front companies in multiple foreign jurisdictions to transfer the cryptocurrency funds. Alivand has worked as a financial facilitator and oil broker for the Syria-based Al-Qatirji Company, which has served as a primary partner of the IRGC-QF in the sale of Iranian oil. In 2023, Alivand coordinated a payment from Minato Commercial Brokers, a front company currently utilized by Alireza Derakhshan, to an Al-Qatirji Company account. Alivand was also involved in transactions worth millions of dollars with Tawfiq Muhammad Sa’id al-Law, a Hizballah-associated money changer who provided Hizballah with access to digital wallets in order to receive funds related to IRGC-QF commodity sales, and who conducted cryptocurrency transfers on behalf of the Al-Qatirji Company. Alireza Derakhshan and Arash Estaki Alivand are being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of the IRGC-QF.

US

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0248

2025-09-16

US

Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 561

OFAC country specific

Iran

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry, Trade sanctions

• https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/1551

On August 16, 2010, OFAC issued the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 561 (75 FR 49836, August 16, 2010) (IFSR) to implement provisions of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–195) (22 U.S.C. 8501–8551). Since then, OFAC has amended the IFSR several times.

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