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Sanctioned Iranian banker amassed €400mn European property empire

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Ali Ansari, accused of financing Revolutionary Guards, owns Mallorca golf club and Frankfurt hotels via offshore companies
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The Iranian magnate Ali Ansari has built a 400 million euro estate in Europe, from skiing in Kitzbühel to golf in Majorca. This offshore network raises the question of the effectiveness of British sanctions against the legal flaws of the European Union.

Sanctioned by the United Kingdom for suspicions of financial ties with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Ali Ansari, according to the Financial Times, constituted a vast real estate empire across continental Europe. The businessman reportedly invested nearly 400 million euros without being subject to European Union sanctions at this stage.

Iranian tycoon Ali Ansari, accused of being one of the great financiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, would have amassed an extensive million-dollar portfolio of properties across continental Europe, including a huge golf and hotel complex in Mallorca, according to an investigation published this Monday by the Financial Times. Ali Ansari, whose family founded the failed local bank Ayandeh Bank (whose fall sparked the economic spark of rece…

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The Iranian banker Ali Ansari, sanctioned in the United Kingdom for alleged financing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is the owner, through a corporate network, of a luxury hotel complex in Mallorca. The tycoon Ali Ansari belongs to the founding family of the Iranian bank Ayandeh Bank, intervened last October, according to the information published by this newspaper, for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme. The bank Ayandeh Bank was als…

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luxtimes.lu broke the news in on Monday, January 26, 2026.
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