The former head of New York-based Muslim charity suspected by federal investigators of acting as a front for Iran’s government was sentenced Thursday to three months in prison for destroying evidence related to the probe, Bloomberg says.

Farshid Jahedi, ex-president of the Alavi Foundation, pleaded guilty in December to destroying documents and obstruction of justice. Mr. Jahedi acknowledged trashing typed and handwritten notes he knew concerned financial transactions a grand jury was probing.

The government has moved to seize foundation property it claims was co-owned by a bank controlled by the Iranian government.