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North Providence auto dealer and salvager Carlo Fakhri shipped vehicles to Lebanon without federal authorization, prosecutors said. (Google Map Image)
A North Providence businessman who operates an auto sales and salvage company was arraigned Wednesday in federal court on charges that he smuggled 19 vehicles from the U.S. to Lebanon.
Carlo Fakhri, 50, of Fall River, appeared in U.S. District Court in Providence and pleaded not guilty to 19 counts of smuggling and 11 counts of submitting false export information. He is accused of unlawfully exporting 15 pick-up trucks, a passenger vehicle, two Chevy Suburbans and a Range Rover to the Mediterranean country. Fakhri, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, is proprietor of D Agostinos Auto Sales and Salvage in North Providence.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. A Rhode Island businessman who runs an auto sales company illegally exported 19 vehicles to Lebanon, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Carlo Fakhri, 50, who operates D’Agostino’s Auto Sales and Salvage, Inc., in North Providence, is charged with violating a law that requires him to provide the correct name, address, identification number, and […]
PROVIDENCE A North Providence businessman is accused of smuggling 15 pickup trucks and four other vehicles to Lebanon in violation of export laws.
The 50-year-old native of Lebanon, Carlo Fakhri, violated a law that required him to identify the purchasers of the vehicles and provide other information to the U.S. Commerce Department, according to federal prosecutors.
Fakhri appeared Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond. He was released on personal recognizance following the entry of a not-guilty plea, according to James Martin, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman.
Fakhri, of Fall River, operates D’Agostino s Auto Sales & Salvage Inc.