Man Sentenced For Illegally Buying, Selling $4M Of Tobacco
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 40-year-old man was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison for illegally buying and shipping millions of dollars worth of tobacco products to Minnesota.
Rashid Fehmi Ibrahim was convicted of six counts of shipment, transport, receive, possess, sell, distribute and purchase contraband smokeless tobacco. He was also convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit the above crimes.
Court documents showed Ibrahim, from Puerto Rico, bought about $4.3 million worth of smokeless tobacco from out-of-state wholesalers with the intent of reselling the products without paying taxes to the other states involved -- including Minnesota.
Ibrahim used private interstate contract carries to ship the products to Minnesota.
He is ordered to pay the state more than $3 million in restitution.