Van Nuys 公司两名经营者被捕 被控出口6.11亿美元诈骗所得电子产品

2025年9月16日,联邦执法人员在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县逮捕了 Saman Delafraz 与 Benjamin Daneshgar。美国司法部说,两人经营位于洛杉矶县 Van Nuys 的 Wireless World 公司,被控把大量源于身份盗窃、信用卡盗窃与诈骗等犯罪活动的消费电子产品和礼品卡出口到美国境外。
Delafraz 现年 32 岁、住 Woodland Hills,Daneshgar 现年 34 岁、住 Studio City,两人被控一项共谋洗钱罪,预计次日在位于洛杉矶市中心的美国联邦地区法院首次出庭。司法部说,若罪名成立,两人面临的法定最高刑期为 20 年联邦监禁。刑事起诉书只包含指控,两人在被法庭以排除合理怀疑证明有罪之前均属无罪。
根据随起诉书提交的宣誓书,Wireless World 在 Van Nuys 与特拉华州 New Castle 两地设有仓库,把电子产品集中后再运出美国。自 2019 年以来,该公司已出口价值超过 6.11 亿美元的电子产品,执法部门认为其中几乎全部是犯罪所得。执法人员当天持联邦搜查令搜查了两处仓库与 Delafraz 的住所,并查封了 Wireless World 的银行账户。
起诉材料称,该公司从多个非法来源购入电子产品与礼品卡。其中,来自 El Monte 的 Blade Bai 已于 2023 年因联邦洗钱罪名被定罪、正在服 15 年刑期,他出售给 Wireless World 的货品大多源于电话诈骗,受害人被诱骗购买礼品卡并报出卡号,礼品卡随后被用于购买电子产品并再兑换成新礼品卡以掩盖资金来源。另一名供货人 Juan Carlos Thola-Duran 现年 58 岁、住 Canyon Country,已被联邦羁押,在另一桩联邦案件中被控为南美犯罪旅游团伙等人员充当协调人与销赃人,其案件定于 2026 年 1 月开审。
材料还称,两名被告也亲自以诈骗方式购入电子产品:他们用装有诈骗所得、主要来自被盗信用卡的礼品卡,在 Best Buy、The Home Depot 等零售商处购买电子产品,货品直接运往 Wireless World 仓库或他们控制的邮箱。
此案由国土安全调查局与联邦调查局调查,洛杉矶警察局与佐治亚州 Cobb 县警察局提供了重要协助,检方由联邦助理检察官 Khaldoun Shobaki 与 Ryan J. Waters 负责。
(来源:美国司法部)
Two Operators of a Van Nuys Company Arrested, Accused of Exporting $611 Million in Fraud-Obtained Electronics
On September 16, 2025, federal agents arrested Saman Delafraz and Benjamin Daneshgar in Los Angeles County, California. The U.S. Department of Justice said the two men ran Wireless World, a company based in Van Nuys, in Los Angeles County, and were charged with exporting hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of consumer electronics and gift cards, nearly all derived from criminal activities such as identity theft, credit card theft and fraud.
Delafraz, 32, of Woodland Hills, and Daneshgar, 34, of Studio City, are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and were expected to make their initial appearances the next day in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. If convicted, the defendants would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. A criminal complaint contains allegations, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Wireless World operates from warehouses in Van Nuys and New Castle, Delaware, aggregating electronics before shipping them out of the United States. Since 2019, Wireless World has exported more than $611 million in electronics from the United States, nearly all of which law enforcement believes to be crime proceeds. Pursuant to federal warrants, both warehouses and Delafraz's residence were searched that day, and Wireless World's bank accounts were seized.
The complaint alleges the company procured electronics and gift cards from many illicit sources. Blade Bai, 37, of El Monte, is serving a 15-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2023 of federal money laundering charges; the goods he sold to Wireless World were largely derived from telephone scams in which victims were duped into buying gift cards and providing the numbers, after which the cards were used to buy electronics and laundered into new gift cards to conceal the source of the funds. Juan Carlos Thola-Duran, 58, of Canyon Country, also sold electronics and gift cards to the company; he is in federal custody in a separate case, charged with acting as a coordinator and fence for South American crime tourism groups, and is scheduled to go to trial in January 2026.
The defendants also allegedly acquired electronics directly through fraud, buying from Best Buy, The Home Depot and other retailers using gift cards loaded with fraud proceeds, primarily via stolen credit cards, with the goods shipped directly to the Wireless World warehouse or to mailboxes the defendants controlled.
Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI are investigating the matter, with significant assistance from the Los Angeles Police Department and the Cobb County Police Department in Georgia. Assistant United States Attorneys Khaldoun Shobaki and Ryan J. Waters are prosecuting the case.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源:美国司法部
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