A man in southern California pleaded guilty of having fraudd more than $ 5 million to customers and to avoid more than a million dollars in taxes.
Frank Seung Noah, 64, from Corona, is a customs broker who has worked with companies to send their goods to the United States for other countries, according to the office of the American prosecutor.
Noah owned and operated Comis International Inc., a logistics and supply chain company based in Cerritos offering customs import brokerage services, according to court documents.
From 2007 to 2019, Noah’s company was a customs import broker for Daiso, a reduction chain based in Japan with locations across the United States
Meanwhile, the prosecutors said that Noah had provided Daiso forms and customs task invoices to receive a false refund for service costs. The forms he provided in Daiso were different from those provided at customs and the protection of American borders (CBP).
Thanks to this method, Daiso had paid too much Noah almost $ 3.4 million, prosecutors said.
He was charged with fraud Daiso in 2022, but he continued to scam other customers on more than $ 2 million using a different program.
He collected money from two customer companies and instead of paying their customs fees, he rather pocketed the funds. CBP informed companies of their unpaid taxes. They asked Noah an explanation and he sent false bank statements to show that he had paid the costs.
Prosecutors said Noah has also escaped the payment of federal taxes, resulting in the loss of IRS of approximately 2.4 million dollars, penalties and interests continuing to accumulate.
“After having agreed with the IRS that he owed more than a million dollars in taxes in 2014, Noah actively avoided the IRS of attempts to receive the amount duly,” said court documents. “This included the payment of two houses on behalf of her former girlfriend, using checks to check checks to avoid IRS from her bank accounts, lie to IRS collection agents and spend thousand Dollars on country subscriptions, travel and golf shopping. ”
On February 7, Noah pleaded guilty to a tax exemption chief and two leaders of fraud per thread.
An hearing of determination of the sentence is scheduled for May 8 where he risks up to 20 years in prison for each counting of fraud per wire and up to five years in federal prison for the number of tax evasion.
The case has been investigated by the IRS Criminal Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations with the help of customs and border protection in the United States.