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19 Providers, 15 Amazon Storefronts and 10 eBay Storefronts Included
A federal grand jury indicted a 38-year-aged Florida gentleman for allegedly offering extra than $1 billion really worth of counterfeit Cisco network products to prospects throughout the world including hospitals, universities, federal government agencies and the military services.*

Onur Aksoy, aka Ron Aksoy, aka Dave Durden allegedly orchestrated a huge and fraudulent operation to visitors in counterfeit products from at the very least as early as August 2013 through to 2022, according to the U.S. Office of Justice.

Throughout this interval, Aksoy, using China and Hong Kong-based mostly suppliers, imported counterfeit, low-high quality computer system networking products produced to show up like new legitimate devices created by Cisco.

The minimal-excellent pc networking devices are built to seem as “new and authentic units created by Cisco and to resell those people devices in the United States and all-around the planet, falsely representing individuals units to purchasers as new and genuine Cisco merchandise,” in accordance to his indictment document.

Aksoy is billed with a single depend of conspiracy to visitors in counterfeit products and to dedicate mail and wire fraud a few counts of mail fraud 4 counts of wire fraud and a few counts of trafficking in counterfeit products.

The indictment says that Aksoy was billed by a legal criticism filed in New Jersey on June 29 and was arrested in Miami the exact working day.

A spokesperson for Cisco was not instantly offered to comment on this growth.

Procedure Information

Aksoy allegedly ran at the very least 19 providers formed in New Jersey and Florida as well as at least 15 Amazon storefronts, at the very least 10 eBay storefronts, and numerous other entities collectively called the “Professional Network Entities.”

Professional Community Entities imported countless numbers of fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco networking equipment from China and Hong Kong, modified by the Chinese counterfeiters to show up real variations of new, increased and extra highly-priced Cisco equipment. It then, “resold them to shoppers in the United States and overseas, falsely representing the products as new and genuine. The procedure allegedly created in excess of $100 million in income, and Aksoy acquired hundreds of thousands of pounds for his individual get,” the Justice Division says.

“The Chinese counterfeiters typically additional pirated Cisco application and unauthorized, minimal-good quality, or unreliable factors – which includes parts to circumvent technological measures added by Cisco to the application to test for software package license compliance and to authenticate the hardware,” according to the indictment.

The fraudsters also built confident that these products and solutions appeared new, real, superior quality and manufacturing facility sealed by implementing counterfeited Cisco labels, stickers, bins, documentation, packaging and other components.

Goods Unsuccessful

The U.S Justice Division claims that the fraudulent and counterfeit products and solutions marketed by the Pro Community Entities suffered from quite a few performance, functionality and safety troubles.

“Normally, they would simply just are unsuccessful or or else malfunction, causing significant problems to their users’ networks and functions – in some instances, costing end users tens of thousands of dollars. Consumers of Aksoy’s fraudulent and counterfeit units included hospitals, universities, governing administration organizations, and the military,” the Justice Office suggests.

According to the indictment, involving 2014 and 2022, Customs and Border Safety (CBP) authorities seized roughly 180 shipments of counterfeit Cisco equipment getting shipped to the Pro Community Entities from China and Hong Kong.

The indictment alleges that Aksoy submitted formal paperwork to the authorities less than the name of “Dave Durden,” an id that he utilized to converse with Chinese co-conspirators.

“To try to keep away from CBP scrutiny, Chinese co-conspirators allegedly broke the shipments up into smaller parcels and transported them on distinct days, and Aksoy made use of at minimum two bogus supply addresses in Ohio. Immediately after CBP seized a cargo of counterfeit Cisco products and solutions to Aksoy and the Pro Community Entities and despatched a seizure recognize, Aksoy allegedly often ongoing to buy counterfeit Cisco merchandise from the very same supplier,” the DOJ alleges.

The indictment also alleges that in between 2014 and 2019, Cisco sent seven letters to Aksoy asking him “to stop and desist his trafficking of counterfeit items.”

“Aksoy allegedly responded to at least two of these letters by resulting in his legal professional to provide Cisco with cast files. In July 2021, brokers executed a lookup warrant at Aksoy’s warehouse and seized 1,156 counterfeit Cisco products with a retail price of around $7 million,” the DOJ says.

*Correction, July 10, 2022 00:04 UTC: Will make very clear that Aksoy has been indicted by a grand jury.
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