By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

US charges 5 with Iran sanctions violations over Brooklyn kidnap plot

On 13 July 2021, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Iranian intelligence officials Alireza Shavaroghi Farahani (aka Vezerat Salimi), Haj Ali, Mahmoud Khazein, Kiya Sadeghi and Omid Noori, as well as California resident Niloufar (Nellie) Bahadorifar, with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers (IEEPA) and sanctions against the Government …

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Maya Lester KC is a senior barrister (King’s Counsel) at Brick Court Chambers with a wide-ranging practice in public law, European law, competition law, international law, human...

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