Mohammed “Moe” Diab and Amy Rountree have pled responsible to Allied Pockets fraud fees.
Rountree’s responsible plea was entered at a listening to held on August twelfth. Diab’s plea was entered at a listening to the next day.
Each Rountree and Diab have pled responsible to 1 depend of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud.
Sentencing for Rountree is scheduled for November nineteenth, 2024. Diab is scheduled to be sentenced a day afterward November twentieth.
Each defendants are dealing with a most 30 yr jail sentence, $1 million advantageous or twice the quantity gained.
Within the authentic 2021 Allied Pockets indictments, the corporate was accused of producing over $150 million in processing charges.
Allied Pockets was a cost processor that supplied monetary companies to scammers. Allied Pockets arrange shell corporations, via which monetary establishments and card manufacturers have been tricked into offering companies to dodgy purchasers.
Allied Pockets was owned by CEO Ahmad “Andy “Khawaja” (proper), who stays a needed fugitive.
As of June 2023, Khawaja is reported to be out on bail pending extradition proceedings in Lithuania.
Approached by BNS, Lithuania’s Prosecutor Common’s Workplace has refused to supply any info relating to Khawaja’s extradition to the US, his present standing or the investigations into his actions.
Diab and Rountree have been Allied Pockets’s COO and VP of Operations respectively.
A fourth defendant, Thomas Wells, pled responsible in October 2021. Wells’ sentencing has repeatedly been pushed again for the reason that authentic February 2022 date.
Wells was scheduled to be sentenced on June fifth, 2024. Since that date was set final November although, there have been no additional updates.
Individually in 2019, Khawaja and Diab have been indicted on fees pertaining to conspiracy to hide conduit and extreme political marketing campaign contributions.
BehindMLM has not been monitoring that case because it falls outdoors the scope of our reporting.