A dual U.S.-Iranian national and CEO of an Iran-based technology company was arrested on federal charges that he spent more than a decade acquiring and smuggling American networking, security and encryption equipment to Iran — including to the Iranian regime’s nuclear and military establishments — in violation of U.S. sanctions law, prosecutors said.

Jamshid Ghomi, 63, of Newport Coast, California, was charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana. He is the founder, owner and CEO of Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd. (FPR), a Tehran-based computer networking company.

Prosecutors allege Ghomi used FPR to procure U.S.-origin networking equipment for Iranian customers without obtaining required licenses from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. From 2017 to 2023, according to the affidavit, FPR supplied U.S.-origin computer networking equipment to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the government agency responsible for Iran’s centrifuge and uranium-enrichment programs.

“As alleged, Ghomi enriched himself by supplying U.S. technology to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and other sanctioned entities responsible for Iran’s nuclear program,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said.

From 2014 to 2022, the affidavit alleges, FPR also supplied U.S.-origin networking, security and encryption equipment to Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics and affiliated military and defense-electronics entities. FPR’s 2017 contract with Iran Computer Industries was signed by Ghomi and expressly identified the buyer as the ministry, prosecutors said.

To move the equipment, prosecutors allege Ghomi routed goods through intermediaries in the United Arab Emirates and used front companies to disguise Iran as the true destination. He directed co-conspirators to keep his name off shipping paperwork and to omit invoices from Iran-bound shipments, the affidavit states. In internal correspondence, Ghomi and his associates referred to Iran as “Motherland,” according to prosecutors.

Ghomi allegedly laundered more than $15 million in proceeds into U.S. bank accounts between 2011 and 2024, falsely reporting the funds to the IRS as a foreign inheritance. He claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit in seven tax years while his highest reported income in any single year was $20,684, prosecutors said. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said prosecutors intend to seek seizure of Ghomi’s assets, including his approximately $35 million Newport Coast mansion.