Aventura Technologies and Its Senior Management Charged with Fraud, Money Laundering and Illegal Importation of Equipment Manufactured in China
A criminal complaint was unsealed in a Brooklyn federal court today charging Aventura Technologies, a New York-based surveillance and security equipment company, and seven current and former employees, with selling Chinese-made equipment with known cyber security vulnerability to government and private customers, while claiming the equipment was made in the U.S. Aventura has generated more than $88 million in sales revenue since November 2010, and the charged scheme has been going on since 2006, according to a Nov. 7 press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
In addition to Aventura, the individual defendants charged in the complaint are Jack Cabasso, Aventura’s managing director and de facto owner and operator; Frances Cabasso, Jack Cabasso’s wife and Aventura’s purported owner and chief executive officer; senior executives Jonathan Lasker, Christine Lavonne Lazarus and Eduard Matulik; current employee Wayne Marino; and recently retired employee Alan Schwartz.