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From the
Times Ledger:
A Rosedale rug dealer who violated the trade embargo with Iran was ordered to be held in prison and pay the federal government hundreds of thousands of dollars for his illegal sales, the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan said.
Reza Safarha, 55, an Iranian immigrant, was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison after he was convicted of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, conspiracy to launder money and stealing government money, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
A federal judge convicted Safarha, who owned the KP House of Carpets, at 134-35 Brookville Blvd., in February for sending nearly $300,000 in cash to Iran in violation of the trade embargo with the nation that has been in effect since 1995.
The immigrant used an informal money-transferring system known as a “hawala,” where funds never physically cross boundaries through a banking system, the U.S. attorney’s office said. The funds are transferred from one country by a hawala operator and distributed to recipients in another nation by the operator’s associates.
From
Eyewitness News:
Adis Medunjanin, who was interviewed twice in the immediate aftermath of the bomb plot, left his Flushing home driving erratically following the execution of the warrant there, investigators said.
Medunjanin's attorney, Robert Gottlieb, said investigators were looking to seize his passport.
Law enforcement sources said a surveillance team was following Medunjanin, who they said rear ended another vehicle at the Whitestone Expressway and then attempted to flee the scene.
Medunjanin was charged with leaving the scene of an accident.
He was treated for injuries sustained in the accident at New York Hospital Queens. He was then taken by investigators to the 109th precinct stationhouse in Flushing for questioning. From the
Times Ledger:
The former president of the nonprofit that acts as landlord to Woodside’s Razi school and is suspected of laundering money for the Iranian government pleaded guilty last week to destroying documents related to the case, the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan said.
Farshid Jahedi, 55, admitted to two counts of felony obstruction of justice last Thursday for destroying the documents in December 2008 after receiving a federal grand jury subpoena requesting records tying the nonprofit Alavi Foundation to Bank Melli Iran, which is owned by the Iranian government. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of as much as $250,000, federal prosecutors said.
FBI agents saw Jahedi tossing out torn documents near his home in Ardsley, N.Y., Dec. 18, 2008, the day after he was subpoenaed and cautioned not to destroy any records, the U.S. attorney’s office said. He was arrested the next day.
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