The U.S. Department of Justice announced the government has collected $7 million of illegally obtained Iranian cash using civil forfeiture.
According to the DOJ press release, the funds are the United States’ share of a civil forfeiture investigation into a complex global conspiracy that sought to violate U.S.-imposed international economic sanctions on Iran. The alleged conspiracy involved several Iranian citizens and a U.S. citizen, who purportedly transferred an estimated $1 billion worth of Iranian-owned assets to accounts across the globe.