| Professor
Charged With Iran Sanctions Violation
Seeks Released To Colleague With DC
Condo
By Matthew
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FEDERAL COURT,
Nov 3 – An Iran professor charged
with violating U.S. Iranian
sanctions sought pre-trial
release in the District for
the District of Columbia on
November 3. Inner City Press
live tweeted it here:
now DC case of US
v REZA SARHANGPOUR KAFRANI
a/k/a "REZA SARHANG" for
Illegally Exporting Laboratory
Equipment to #Iran. Today's
hearing before Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan is whether Kafrani
can be released pre-trial.
Assistant US
Attorney: The proposed third
party custodian would not be
around, and would not be at
risk. Federal Public
Defender: The proposed third
party custodian has a security
clearance. He works for
Habitat for Humanity. There
will be no Internet access.
Judge Sullivan:
I'm sorry, I have to take this
call. Just wait a
minute.
Federal Public
Defender: During the break I
checked, and the only one that
can put internet in the
building is Cox
Communications, only with the
owner's consent.
Third party
custodian: It is true, what
Sabrina said. Judge Sullivan:
You own 2 units there?
Third party
custodian: I don't know
how much the bail would be.
Sabrina Shroff: Mr. Kafrani
could put up one of the three
units. Judge Sullivan: What's
his connection to this case?
Shroff: He's a friend of
another professor in Canada.
We have a friend in common.
Judge
Sullivan: The one you are
willing to put up, it is
mortgaged? It is very
marketable. Third party
custodian: It's on South
Manchester and Arlington
Boulevard.
AUSA: We have to
consider his whole financial
profile. Judge Sullivan: It's
a marketable property.
Shroff: He
doesn't look young to me.
Judge Sullivan (joking) Be
careful now. (Laughs). Shroff:
I'm not young either. Judge
Sullivan: I had a case with a
professor, about Iran, I can't
remember now [Note: there's
also Afrasiabi in EDNY, pro se
with Federal Defender.
Judge Sullivan: I
need more info, and a proposed
order of forfeiture that would
withstand appellate scrutiny.
AUSA: They don't know each
other very well. It's sort of
friend of a friend.
Judge Sullivan: They are not
strangers. Do you want to
depose him?
Judge
Sullivan: I'll look at the
Judge Howell case, and
whatever you submit. I'm
looking at 2 weeks from now.
Where is he?
Shroff: In the DC
Jail. In C.D.F. Judge
Sullivan: He may be
transferred to Lewisburg soon.
I could order him to remain in
DC, moved to C.T.F.
[It's the
Central Treatment Facility,
& Judge Sullivan is
ordering it "sua
sponte."] He says,
"There's some progress here."
Shroff: There was
a 2004 case, defendant
released. Judge Sullivan: We
can look it up. Nov 16 at
11am.
Inner City
Press will continue to cover
the case. It is US v. Kafrani,
21-cr-0501 (Sullivan) DDC
The DOJ
prosecutors said: A federal
grand jury in the District of
Columbia returned an
indictment today charging a
Canadian national with the
unlawful export of laboratory
equipment from the United
States to Iran, through Canada
and the United Arab Emirates
(UAE). According to
court documents, Reza
Sarhangpour Kafrani, aka Reza
Sarhang, 46, an Iranian
national residing in Montreal,
was indicted by a grand jury
in the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia on
one count of conspiracy, two
counts of violations of the
International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (IEEPA),
one count of causing a failure
to submit export information
and six counts of money
laundering. The indictment
also includes a forfeiture
allegation seeking all
proceeds of the alleged
crimes. Kafrani will be
arraigned on the charges on a
date to be determined by the
court
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