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Company: Aventura Technologies, Inc.
Penalty: $3,000,000
Year: 2024
Date: March 19, 2024
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: fraud
Secondary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Aventura Technologies, Inc. pleaded guilty to committing mail and wire fraud conspiracy and illegal importation in federal court in Central Islip.  The guilty plea was made in connection to a long-running, lucrative scheme to purchase Chinese-made security equipment (such as networked surveillance cameras) and resell it as U.S.-made, including to multiple agencies of the U.S. government, branches of the military and to customers overseas in the public and private sectors. The company agreed to dissolve itself and to forfeit more than $3 million in seized assets.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Eastern District of New York
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
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