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University of Miami professor and his wife are charged with illegally sending genetic sequencing equipment to Iran
2021-09-16
  • Mohammad Faghihi, 52, his wife Farzeneh Modarresi, 53, and his sister Faezeh Faghihi, 50, were charged with conspiring to commit an offense against the US

  • The three allegedly bought genetic sequencing equipment from US manufacturers and illegally shipped it to Iran

  • According to court documents they laundered nearly $3.5million through a Florida company called Express Gene

  • Some of the transfer money was used to ship the genetic sequencing equipment to Iran without a license, despite sanctions on Iran

  • During his time as a professor - from 2013 to 2020 - Faghihi was the principal investigator on several National Institute of Health grants


The family operated a Florida company called Express Gene, which court documents revealed received nearly $3.5million in wire transfers from accounts in Malaysia, the People's Republic of China, Singapore, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

According to the Miami Herald the former professor was also allegedly in contact with the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a US-designated terrorist organization which bought several genetic testing machines from Express Gene.
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