Operation busted after dodgy devices ended up at Air Force
Miami resident Onur Aksoy has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for running a multi-million-dollar operation selling fake Cisco equipment that ended up in the US military.
US Customs officials intercepted 180 shipments of the counterfeit goods, but couldn't catch them all, as Aksoy and his Chinese business partners split up deliveries into smaller chunks and sent them to a variety of fake addresses. When packages were seized, Aksoy responded to investigators as"Dave Durden" and submitted forged paperwork for the kit.
But eventually he irritated the wrong people. The Department of Defense had bought some of Aksoy's fake gear for flight simulators and some was even used in actual combat operations. Obviously, the DoD didn't find it very funny after being duped.to the charges of trafficking counterfeit goods, mail fraud, and wire fraud. He has been waiting to be sentenced ever since.
"This case should serve as a warning to those who attempt to sell counterfeit goods to the US government," said Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent Greg Gross. At the latest, assuming his sentences are all consecutive and he doesn't get any brownie points for good behavior, Aksoy will be leaving prison in 2030.
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