The Department of Justice reports that a Taiwanese man was recently sentenced to more than three years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $100,000 for a scheme that involved false export documents.
According to the DOJ, beginning in at least July 2016 and continuing through at least May 2023 the man ordered products from the subsidiary of a Germany-based company by falsely representing that he was affiliated with a biology research lab at a large U.S. university. When the products arrived at the university stockroom, an employee there diverted the products to the man, who repackaged them and shipped them to China. To avoid scrutiny he made false statements about the value and contents of these shipments in export documents.
The DOJ commended the subsidiary for disclosing the misconduct before its outside counsel completed their investigation and understood the full nature and extent of the scheme, as well as for offering “exceptional cooperation” to the prosecution team, including by proactively identifying and producing documents that established probable cause to search the residences and electronic devices of culpable individuals.
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