A federal grand jury has indicted two Bay Area businessmen, a Chinese national, two local companies and a Chinese company with an elaborate scheme to evade more than $109 million in custom duties and international money laundering.
In an indictment unsealed Thursday, prosecutors said Xin Mian Pan of San Francisco, who owns Uni-Tile and Marble operating out of San Jose and Hayward and Uni-Stone and Cabinet in San Francisco, working with Hua Liang Xie of South San Francisco and Jinhua Wang, a Chinese national and owner of the China-based Shenzhen Top & Profit International Forwarding Co. Ltd., with fraudulently evading payment of anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, and other duties imposed on quartz surface products, wooden cabinets and vanities and ceramic tiles manufactured in the People’s Republic of China and imported into the U.S.
Pan was arrested Wednesday and made his initial appearance in federal district court in San Francisco the next day when the indictment was unsealed…