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US govt moves to dismiss criminal complaint vs Miah
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Posted on Apr 14 2012
By Ferdie de la Torre
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The U.S. government filed yesterday a motion to dismiss a criminal complaint filed against Mohammad Jahangir Miah, the man tagged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the mastermind in a scheme of cashing fraudulent CNMI tax refund checks at grocery stores.
Assistant U.S. attorney Stephen F. Leon Guerrero asked the U.S. District Court for the NMI to dismiss the complaint as Miah was already indicted Tuesday on similar charges.
Miah has pleaded not guilty to the charges. His jury trial will start on May 22, 2012 at 9am.
FBI agents arrested Miah on March 19. At that time, he was on home confinement after being convicted of involvement in a driver’s license scam at the Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
FBI agents arrested Miah after the U.S. government filed a criminal complaint charging him with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
FBI special agent Haejun Park stated in an affidavit that their investigation began after a “confidential source” voluntarily came forward to report that he/she had been cashing fraudulent CNMI tax refund checks at Miah’s direction.
It was not clear yet whether the “confidential source” will also be charged.
On Aug. 19, 2011, Miah, one of the five suspects in a driver’s license scam at DPS, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiring to unlawfully produce and transfer identification documents. He was then placed on home confinement pending his sentencing.
