Borg77 Posted July 7, 2002 Share Posted July 7, 2002 Ca. couple ordered to turn over $261,000 in software piracy probe Associated Press Friday, July 5, 2002 A federal judge has ordered a couple accused of software piracy to turn over $261,000 believed to be held in a Pakistani bank account to the U.S. District Court. Mirza Ali, 54, and Sameena Ali, 48, husband-and-wife owners of a Fremont company called Samtech Research Inc. are accused of buying up companies licensed to resell Microsoft products at discounts to schools and selling the products instead to some dealers who were also arrested for software piracy. The couple are accused of laundering their profits through international bank accounts. Microsoft says the couple's operation cost the company $100 million. The indictment says that during the time of the sales, the Alis wired $319,000 to an account in Karachi, Pakistan from a Fremont bank. The Internal Revenue Service could not trace $58,000 of the money to the Alis. The accusations against the Alis followed a two-year investigation of software piracy by local and federal authorities, resulting in the arrest of 27 people in April on copyright infringement, counterfeiting and money laundering charges. Undercover agents bought $5.5 million worth of the fake software. Source: http://www.businesstoday.com/business/tech...ate07052002.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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