Siavash Kayvanpour
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Siavash Kayvanpour is an Iranian-born expatriate and the identified primary operator of the Shelbit Exchange, a Dubai-based unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange that processed at least $4 billion since May 2024. On August 7, 2026, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kayvanpour personally under Executive Order 13224 for materially supporting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the sanctioned exchange Nobitex. Any transaction with Kayvanpour or his controlled wallets and entities constitutes a U.S. sanctions violation.
Connected Entities
8 entities · 60 linked investigations- Aban Tether→mentioned with→Nobitex(70%)
- Aban Tether→mentioned with→Tether(80%)
- Nobitex / Wallex / Bitpin / Ramzinex→mentioned with→Nobitex(80%)
- Nobitex / Wallex / Bitpin / Ramzinex→mentioned with→Tether(65%)
- Siavash Kayvanpour→mentioned with→Nobitex(80%)
- Siavash Kayvanpour→mentioned with→Binance(70%)
- Siavash Kayvanpour→mentioned with→Tether(70%)
- Binance→mentioned with→Tether(60%)
- Zedcex / Zedxion / Babak Morteza Zanjani (IRGC-linked exchanges)→mentioned with→Tether(70%)
- Nobitex→mentioned with→Tether(70%)
- + 15 more
Connected Through
8 shared actors · 535 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
- □Binanceorganization
- □Tetherorganization
- □Nobitexorganization
- □Nobitex / Wallex / Bitpin / Ramzinexorganization
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Timeline(11 events)
2023
Siavash Kayvanpour convicted by an Iranian court on illegal gambling charges alongside influencers Sasha Sobhani and Pooyan Mokhtari.
CryptoTimes / Reuters investigation24 August 2023
Shelbit Technologies Ltd Sp. z o.o. incorporated in Warsaw, Poland, with Kayvanpour as owner.
EMIS Poland company profileMay 2024
Shelbit Exchange begins active operations, processing cryptocurrency through its unlicensed Dubai-based platform.
Reuters investigation via CryptoTimes2025
Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) fines Shelbit General Trading L.L.C. for operating without a license, failing KYC requirements, and unauthorized marketing.
FX News Group / Finance MagnatesApril 2026
Tether freezes approximately $344 million in USDT linked to Iran's central bank wallets at U.S. authorities' request.
Chainalysis / CoinDeskApril 2026
Pooyan Mokhtari arrested in Dubai and accused by UAE authorities of financing Iranian terrorist organizations; subsequently expelled from the UAE and relocates to Hong Kong.
GamblingNewsJune 2026
United States sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, a designated entity to which Kayvanpour's wallets sent over $2 million.
U.S. Treasury / CoinDesk16 July 2026
OFAC adds four Iran central bank cryptocurrency wallet addresses to the SDN list; Tether freezes an additional $131 million in USDT held in TRON-based addresses.
CoinDesk24 July 2026
VARA issues immediate cease-and-desist order against Shelbit following Reuters inquiries, citing money laundering and terrorism financing violations.
FX News Group31 July 2026
Reuters publishes investigation identifying Shelbit as the hub of a $4 billion Iranian sanctions-evasion scheme, linking it to the IRGC, Iran's central bank, over 2,000 gambling websites, and Nobitex. Reuters also reports $676 million flowed from Shelbit-linked wallets to Binance.
Reuters via CryptoTimes / The Block7 August 2026
OFAC designates Siavash Kayvanpour personally under E.O. 13224, along with Shelbit Exchange and four affiliated entities (SHPS Shelbit, Shelbit Technologies Ltd, Crypto Home DMCC, NFT Home DMCC). Aban Tether is simultaneously designated under E.O. 13902.
U.S. Department of the TreasuryDecision Log
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- slot 443517983 · hash 6ZcGMngxFvFArj32jANiKwrDofromePaDZEEtAj8ocns
- slot 443517981 · hash BPJLuBKckiWim7T9RYkREHa1c94uuezmT6d8sYidWuqX
- slot 443504823 · hash EJmmgGLEcWLcfqbC7QWj9qyBtJHBzvr5PCtET88tdmYZ
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 16 of 17 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 8/7/2026, 11:13:16 PM
last updated: 8/25/2026, 10:46:50 PM
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