Los Angeles- A paramount-based clothes wholesale company executive was sentenced to four years in a federal jail on Friday to reduce imported clothes in a plan to avoid paying millions of dollars in custom duties.
Bell’s 40-year-old Mohammad Dawood Ghacham was sentenced by American District Judge Maam Evusi-Mansah Frimong, who ordered him to pay around $ 6.4 million in reinstatement, according to the US Attorney Office.
Gacham convicted a federal count of conspiracy in December 2022 through a custom house to pass false and fraud papers.
Gacham’s company, Gachham Ink, who trade under the Platini brand name, imports clothes from China and a fraud challans for US customs and border security, evaluating shipments, allowing the company to avoid paying full amount of outstanding tariffs on imports.
Under the direction of Mohammad Ghacham, the Chinese supplier will prepare two challans for clothes ordered by Ghacham Ink – a true challan, which reflects the actual price paid for goods, and a fraud “customs challan”, which reflects a sensible value. Ghacham Inc. Custon challans were presented to CBP and customs brokers to reduce the outstanding tariffs on imports with fraud, while it maintained the correct challan in its accounting records.
From July 2011 to February 2021, Gacham Inc. and Mohammad Gachham evaluated imported clothing of over 32 million dollars and failed to pay around $ 6.4 million in customs.
Gacham Ink convicted a conspiracy for passing false papers and to deal with the properties of smuggling of a specially designated drugs under a law as a count of conspiracy or a foreign narcotics kingpin designation act to engage in any transaction.
This was the first criminal defect in the district under the Kingpin Act, federal prosecutors said.
Last year sentenced, the company was ordered to pay around $ 10.4 million and placed a probation for five years to reduce imported clothes in a plan to trade with a woman associated with Mexico’s Cinaloa drug cartel to avoid paying millions of dollars at customs.
In December, Gachm Inc. was ordered to create and maintain a money-laundering compliance and morality program by US District Judge Maam Evusi-Manasah Fimpong and was presented to review by a third-party monitor, which will report to the court on an annual basis, according to the US Attorney Office.
According to the US Attorney’s office, Gachm Inc. stopped trading people and businesses in the United States with “specifically designated drug smugglers”.
Cazarez Pérez was first listed under the Act to join the financial network of leaders of Sinaloa Cartel based in Mexico.
Prosecutors argued in a sentence memorandum, “The company traded the Kingpin Act with a member of a money laundering network … two of the two most notorious drug smugglers in the world,” prosecutors argued in a sentence memorandum. “This excluded taxpayers from millions, both to save themselves money and to secure an inappropriate lead against their competition in the Southern California apparel market. And it did so through a continuous, comprehensive effort during more than a decade. ,
Mohammad Ghacham was not accused of violation of the Kingpin Act.