Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear
A 39-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling hundreds of millions of dollars of counterfeit Cisco gear to unsuspecting schools, hospitals, government agencies, and the military., between 2013 and 2022 Onur Aksoy, based in Miami, founded at least 19 companies in New Jersey and Florida and launched 15 Amazon and 10 eBay storefronts from which he peddled"tens of thousands" of low-quality or faulty networking devices gussied up to look like new or official Cisco equipment.
The goods, imported from sellers in China and Hong Kong, were often loaded with pirated Cisco software and packaged within Cisco boxes bearing Cisco labels and stickers. Documentation was also made to look legitimate, the Justice Department said. As you might expect, the equipment was inferior to actual Cisco kit. Some of the fakes performed poorly or flamed out quickly, and in some cases, the DoJ notes, the equipment resulted in tens of thousands of dollars in damages to users' networks and operations.Aksoy's activities drew the attention of the Customs and Border Protection agency, which reportedly seized 180 shipments of counterfeit goods shipped to companies owned by Aksoy between 2014 and 2022.
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