A Florida defense contractor has been found guilty of multiple charges, including attempted fraud against the United States, and could be sentenced to prison.
The person in question, Yuksel Sembol, was convicted of a long list of serious crimes against the state. The charges include “conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, conspiracy to violate the Export Administration Reform Act, and violation of the Arms Export Control Act.”
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel J. Marcet and Lindsey Schmidt of the Middle District of Florida and Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Marzen of the National Security Agency’s Counterintelligence and Export Division are prosecuting the case.
Defense contractor faces fines and possible jail time for fraud
Public documents in the case, prosecuted by Marcet, Schmidt and Marzen, identify the company as Mason Engineering Parts LLC, a Sembol Lana Shell company based in the Middle District of Florida. .
Her scheme involved Mehmet Ozcan and Onur Simsek, later named co-conspirators, to fraudulently procure contracts to supply critical military components to the Department of Defense. Both men are still at large and are fugitives at the time of writing.
“Navy Nimitz-class and Ford-class aircraft carriers, Navy submarines, Marine Corps armored vehicles, Army M-60 series tanks and Abraham combat tanks, and other weapon systems” are critical military kits that require illegally sourced parts. It was one of a kind. Department of Justice.
Ozkan and Simsek were reportedly manufacturing parts from Turkey, and Cembol was making Mason Engineering Parts LLC look like a legitimate company. She also came forward with this company and presented its entities to the U.S. government and U.S. military contractors. Mason Engineering Parts LLC has been recognized as a highly scrutinized and qualified military parts manufacturer thanks to Senbol parts.
His role was further concealed from the contract because Mr. Simsek was “convicted of a virtually identical conspiracy in the Southern District of Florida and was stripped of U.S. government contracts,” the report said.
The conspirators also exported and accessed sensitive and sensitive military drawings through software connected to computers in the United States. Sembol knowingly “facilitated the illegal export of these drawings,” she said, “despite having entered into numerous agreements that promised to protect the drawings from illegal access and export. “They did so despite a clear warning on the face that these drawings could not be exported.” ”
The co-conspirators then lied to the U.S. government and U.S. government contractors about the origins of the parts and received payment. Cembor then laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in criminal proceeds and sent them back to Turkey via international wire transfers,” the Justice Department report states.
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