Hazim Elashi

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Middle Eastern
Era:2000s
Inmate Number:#29685-177
State:Texas
Time Imprisoned:
5 Years 3 Months 29 Days
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Biography

Hazim Elashi, 56, was indicted December 17, 2002 in the Infocom case along with brothers Bayan, Ghassan, Basman, and Ihsan, plus cousins Mousa Abu Marzook and Nadia Elashi. Manager of personal computer systems for Infocom; from 1997-2000 illegally shipped computers to Libya and Syria. Sentenced January 2006 to 66 months federal prison + deportation.

On December 29, 2008, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the InfoCom judgment as to Hazim Elashi. The opinion lists his convictions in the first export/false-statement trial; he was not convicted in the separate designated-person-property trial.

Original court or government report, PDF 1645.

The documented case chronology records custody endpoint April 14, 2008.

Source 1 ; Source 2 ; Source 3.

Case

Charges: 18 USC 371 Conspiracy to Violate Export Administration Regulations and Libyan Sanctions; 50 USC 1701-1706 Libyan/Syrian Export Violations; 18 USC 1956(h) Money Laundering Conspiracy; 18 USC 1957 Money Laundering - Dec 2002 Infocom indictment
Arrested: Dec 16, 2002
Sentenced: January 2006
Incarcerated: Dec 16, 2002
Released: Apr 14, 2008
Sentence: 66 months federal prison + deportation
Convicted: Yes

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