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On May 22, 2008, Walid Osmond Turk and Yasmeen Assaf Turk were indicted by federal grand jury in Syracuse, New York for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and fraudulent use of access devices. The Turks were involved in schemes that used fraudulent account numbers to ship counterfeit merchandise purchased via the internet, resulting in a loss of $9.9 million and a potential loss of $25 million.
The couple travels frequently outside the United States to China, Japan, Qatar, Singapore, Jordan, UAE, Canada, St. Maarten, France, Great Britain and Germany. Yasmeen Assaf Turk is also known by the alias Nada Assaf.
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