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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SANTA ANA, California\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"womanA customs broker was arrested Thursday on a federal grand jury indictment charging him with evading the payment of $1.5 million in taxes, federal officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also was indicted for a $3.4 million wire fraud scheme that overcharged a Japanese variety store client on customs duties, said officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frank Seung Noah, 59, of Corona, self-surrendered to law enforcement.\u00a0 He is charged with one count of tax evasion and three counts of wire fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n

If convicted of all charges, Noah faces up to five years in federal prison for the tax evasion count and 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0 According to the indictment, Noah owned and operated Comis International Inc., a logistics and supply-chain company based out of Cerritos, which offered customs import brokerage services on behalf of businesses. <\/span><\/p>\n

From 2007 to 2019, Comis was a customs import broker for Daiso, a Japan-based variety and value store with stores in the United States, including Southern California.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From March 2016 until February 2019, Noah \u2013 acting through Comis \u2013 paid customs import duty fees to U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Daiso\u2019s behalf. Noah then allegedly submitted invoices to Daiso that fraudulently inflated the customs import duty fees that Noah had paid to CBP. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a result of Noah\u2019s scheme, Daiso paid the inflated invoices, causing Noah to fraudulently obtain a total of at least $3.3 million, the indictment alleges.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For example, on September 15, 2017, Daiso wired $192,486\u00a0to a Noah-controlled bank account, of which approximately $74,840 was a result of inflated invoices, according to the indictment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Noah also allegedly willfully attempted to evade the payment of approximately $1,562,684 in federal taxes which the IRS assessed against him for the calendar years 2008, 2009 and 2010. <\/span><\/p>\n

He allegedly did so by making small payments to the IRS, all while making much larger payments on mortgages for properties he controlled \u2013 even though they were bought in his girlfriend\u2019s name \u2013 including his Corona residence purchased in 2016 and a vacation property in Rancho Mirage that was purchased the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Noah allegedly used funds transferred to his girlfriend\u2019s bank account to pay the mortgage on the Corona property and to a country club, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

In September 2017, after Noah received approximately $147,148 from the sale of a property he owned in Carson, he wrote a $120,000 check to his girlfriend. He also allegedly made false statements to the IRS during this time by underreporting his income.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From 2014 to 2017, Noah allegedly cashed more than $7 million in checks instead of depositing the funds into his personal or business bank accounts to conceal his control over such funds.<\/span><\/p>\n

, Noah owes about $2 million to the IRS, according to the indictment. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n

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