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Abuzar Gohari Moqadam (Gohari Moqadam) was a professor and affiliate of the Mabna Institute;
Gohari Moqadam exchanged stolen credentials for compromised accounts with Mabna Institute founders Rafatnejad and Mohammadi;
Abuzar Gohari Moqadam is wanted for his alleged involvement in criminal activities, including obtaining unauthorized access to computer systems, stealing proprietary data from those systems, and selling that stolen data to Iranian customers such as Iranian universities and the Iranian government;
Moqadam was an associate of the Mabna Institute, a private government contractor based in the Islamic Republic of Iran that performed this work for the Iranian government, at the behest of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;
Victims of the scheme included approximately 144 universities in the United States, 176 foreign universities in 21 countries, five federal and state government agencies in the United States, 36 private companies in the United States, 11 foreign private companies, and two international non-governmental organizations;
Also Known As:
Gohari Maghadam Abuzar
Goharimoqadam abuzar
Involved In:
Cyber criminal
Born:
16 Sep. 1980
Passport:
V29385211 expires: 19 Feb 2019
National ID:
367-353055-063
Country:
Iran
Reason for the color:
» U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Abuzar Gohari Moqadam under Executive Order (E.O.) 13694, “Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities,” as amended. The entity designated today engaged in the theft of valuable intellectual property and data from hundreds of U.S. and third-country universities and a media company for private financial gain;
» On February 7, 2018, a grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York indicted Abuzar Gohari Moqadam on computer intrusion, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft charges, and a federal arrest warrant has been issued for his arrest;
» FBI issued warrant on February 7, 2018 for his arrest;
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