Florida Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Export to Iran
A Florida business owner was sentenced to 40 months in prison for conspiring to illegally export “power generating equipment” to Iran, the Justice Department said in a Jan. 26 press release. James Meharg worked with United Kingdom and Iranian citizens to export a “large turbine” and parts to Iran while trying to hide the shipment, the press release said. Meharg’s sentence includes three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
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From October 2017 through mid-June 2019, Meharg tried to export a Solar Mars 90 S turbine core engine and parts to an Iranian end-user by falsifying export documents. Meharg received about $250,000 from a co-conspirator in the U.K. that was laundered through foreign entities, including one in Dubai, as payment for exporting the turbine, the Justice Department said. Authorities seized the shipment before it was sent to the Iranian end-user, who was linked to an Iranian energy company.