A group of six Southern California businesses run by a fugitive Chinese billionaire was ordered today to pay $1.83 billion in restitution for scheming to evade payment of duties on imported aluminum products from China.
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August 23, 2021 A federal jury today found six corporate entities guilty of participating in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the United States via a wire-and-customs fraud scheme in which huge amounts of aluminum – disguised as “pallets” to avoid $1.8 billion in customs duties – were exported to the United States and were “sold” to fraudulently inflate a China-based company’s revenues and deceive investors worldwide.