A civil forfeiture action filed this week connected to the 2024 federal raid at Fuyao Glass America’s Moraine plant describes a yearslong federal investigation of a sophisticated money laundering operation paid over $126 million by Fuyao.
No one has been criminally charged in the case. The civil forfeiture action attempts to seize items including vehicles, real estate and a Cartier watch in connection to the ongoing investigation.
The 74-page complaint describes a law enforcement investigation that began in December 2019, saying multiple “business owners originally from China” who, on moving to Ohio, “became intricately involved with one another” created roughly 40 business entities that facilitated the “harboring, transportation, and employment of illegal aliens at various factories, and have developed a sophisticated money laundering organization.”…