The money from Iran’s lost oil rig was invested in the wine industry
Tehran’s Sharq Chap newspaper says that the money from Iran’s missing oil rig was invested in the wine industry, and the investor was also one of the sponsors of Donald Trump’s campaign for the US presidency.
Sharq newspaper’s account of the story of the missing oil rig and the events after it:
The story of “The Lost Mast” begins with the second government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In those years, Marine Facilities Company, under the CEO Ali Taheri Mutlaq, the then CEO of this company, won one of the tenders for the 14th phase of South Pars, and this project became an excuse for this company to try to buy an oil drilling rig to fulfill its duties. The offshore facility company begins a search for a suitable rig to purchase, and along the way, two dilapidated rigs are selected for technical inspection. Finally, after the technical visit, a drilling rig named “Fortuna” is selected for purchase; a rig belonging to the Romanian JSP company, which needed to be renovated in Turkey before being used in Iran.
The marine facilities company, which was on the list of sanctions before the JCPOA, needed a cover to avoid the sanctions in order to buy this rig. Reza Mostafavi Tabatabai, the third defendant in this case, who worked as a consultant with the marine facilities company and had proposed the purchase of Fortunera from the very beginning, prepares the foundations for the establishment of the cover company. This paper company is called Dean International Trading and it is registered in this country under the ownership of Omar Kamal Sawadeh, a lawyer living in the UAE, and Omar Kamal at the same time gave a guarantee to Mustafa Tabatabai for this company. The paper company enters into a deal with the Romanian company and the purchase contract of Declfortuna is signed.
Initially, 17,400,000 dollars equivalent to 20% of the contract amount will be given to this paper company as an advance payment by the marine facilities company, of which only 13,400,000 dollars will reach the Romanian company. After that, when the reconstruction of Fortune nears its end, the Romanian company demands the remaining amount of the contract, but the marine facilities company did not have the necessary liquidity to pay the amount at this time. Some time later, the marine facility company manages to provide the remaining amount and provides it to the paper company; Unaware of the fact that the Romanian company has canceled its contract with this company and Declfortune is not going to come to Iran. The rig goes to Mexico, the money stays with the paper company, and actually Reza Mostafavi Tabatabai, who has been abroad, and the headline “Lost Oil Rig” appears on news outlets. The money that was supposed to provide an oil rig for Iran, according to the claim of the lawyer of one of the defendants in the case and the documents that “Omar Kamel” presented to the court, was used by Mostafavi Tabatabai to invest in the wine industry. According to this lawyer’s claim in an interview with Qanun newspaper in May 2017, Mustafavi has contributed significant sums of money to Trump’s campaign in the US presidential election.
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