Mahan Air (W5, Tehran Mehrabad) has been accused of colluding with nineteen people and companies in Europe and Asia in evading US sanctions. The middlemen are said to have "engaged in the development and operation of an illicit aviation procurement network designed to evade the U.S. government's sanctions against Iran." In its notice, the US Commerce Department said it had "reasonable cause" to believe that the following nineteen persons located in Armenia, Greece, Iran, Thailand, Turkey, and the U.A.E., are part of a procurement ring that has coordinated the sale and supply of items subject to Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to Iran in violation of Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations and the EAR: Aeolian Airlines (Athens), Seyyed Abdolreza Mousavi, Eurocenter Havacilik Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi, Kral Aviation Services Ltd., Kral Aviaton, Asian Aviation Logistics Co., Ltd., Gulnihal Yegane, Pioneer Logistics Havacilik Turizm Yoonetim Danismanlik Ithalat Thracat San. Tic. Ltd. Sti, Thrust Aviation FZE, Aerostar Asset Management FZC, Avistar Havacilik Bilisim Turizm Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi, Mostafa Oveici, Vertir Airlines (Erebuni), Sawa Air Aviation FZCO, Avia Trust, Khalidee Boolay Surinanda, Kosol Surinanda, Ergin Turker, and Glasgow International Trading. The firms have been added to the Commerce Department's "Entity List," which largely prohibits them from buying restricted items from the United States, such as aircraft engines or spare parts.