10/04/2017
Korean national pleads guilty to conspiring to defraud the US by diverting millions of untaxed cigarettes
LOS ANGELES – Un Hag Baeg, 58, of Marina del Rey, Calif., a Korean national currently living in the U.S., pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to defraud the United States government by evading federal excise taxes due on 143 million cigarettes sold domestically, but which the co-conspirators claimed were destined for cargo vessels sailing out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The case results from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/korean-national-pleads-guilty-conspiring-defraud-us-diverting-millions-untaxed#wcm-survey-target-id
