US blacklists sprawling sanction-busting network tied to Turkish energy conglomerate
US says Turkish businessman and his extensive network of companies facilitated sales of sanctioned Iranian oil
In its latest targeting of sanction-evaders, the US Treasury blacklists Turkish national Sitki Ayan and his network for facilitating sales worth hundreds of millions of dollars of Iranian oil for the benefit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force. The sanctioning of Mr Ayan and his companies is a ‘giant stride’ towards limiting the IRGC’s exports, according to US monitoring group
