Key IRGC intelligence figure in Iran’s oil sales identified: Who is Mostafa Ahadi?

Key Points:

• Iran International has revealed that trustees responsible for selling Iran’s sanctioned oil have failed to return billions of dollars in proceeds, prompting criticism from Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei and a confidential Supreme National Security Council document exposing manipulation of debt figures.
• The case involving these trustees has been redirected back to the IRGC Intelligence Organization through the influence of Mostafa Ahadi, a senior IRGC official with extensive control over Iran’s oil sales, who has held key positions within the Supreme National Security Council and IRGC Intelligence.
• Mohammad Javad Bavand, closely linked to Ahadi, has played a central role in assigning large oil sales to trustees with outstanding debts, including Mohammad Hadi Momenin, who has a history of financial corruption and arrest but avoided prosecution through Bavand’s influence.
• Momenin and Bavand’s network includes connections to major banks and officials who have neglected to pursue significant debts, allowing continued financial misconduct; Momenin was also part of a corruption network that failed to return $2 billion in oil proceeds.
• In response to media investigations, a secret IRGC meeting was held to suppress coverage of the trustee corruption scandal, resulting in the removal of reports from state-affiliated outlets, while the Supreme National Security Council facilitated the return of case oversight to IRGC Intelligence to maintain their control over oil sale profits.