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TVA nuclear head illegally shipped money to Iran

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Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics

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The former head of one of America's biggest nuclear power construction programs has admitted to illegally sending money to Iran.
Masoud Bajestani served as a vice president of construction at TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.

Now he faces up to five years in prison, and he's agreed to forfeit the $600,000 dollars he sent to Iran over three years.
Bajestani's lawyer says the money was used to help his family and his elderly parents.
But federal prosecutors say the money transfers violated U.S. sanctions after Iran refused to suspend its nuclear program.
Bajestani will be sentenced in federal court in January.

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