LOS ANGELES, California – Richard Kayseryan, the owner of TriMed Medical Wholesalers, Inc. in Burbank, California, was among four defendants taken into custody this morning on federal ‘structuring’ charges that allege they made millions of dollars in cash deposits designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements.
Kayseryan, 41, is the lead defendant in a 20-count indictment returned on April 6, 2023, by a federal grand jury that charges four individuals and TriMed in relation to two separate schemes to structure millions of dollars in proceeds through ‘funnel’ bank accounts set up in the names of shell companies.
As part of the scheme, TriMed collected millions of dollars from business activities and Kayseryan prepared checks that he delivered to his co-defendants. The co-conspirators deposited the checks into the funnel accounts and immediately withdrew the funds in cash in amounts at or under $10,000 per transaction, according to the indictment. These transactions were designed to prevent banks from reporting the cash withdrawals to the federal government, which is required for every cash transaction of more than $10,000.
The indictment also charges Kayseryan with lying to federal agents about the funds during an interview in June 2016. Kayseryan allegedly falsely claimed that ‘he issued TriMed checks payable to the shell businesses,…for the purpose of making interest-bearing ‘investments’ in the shell businesses’ and that he ‘did not receive ‘one cent’ of the funds from the TriMed checks back.’ In fact, the businesses did not exist at all, and Kayseryan received millions of dollars in funds back from the checks in the form of cash.
Finally, the indictment charges Kayseryan with filing false tax returns that fraudulently overstated TriMed’s business expenses. Investigators believe that Kayseryan wrote checks to the shell companies from 2010 through 2015 totaling more than $20 million and that Kayseryan claimed these checks were to pay business expenses. In fact, most of the shell companies did not actually exist other than on paper.
Richard Kayseryan, a resident of Burbank, California, was arrested this morning in connection with a 20-count indictment charging him with federal ‘structuring’ charges. Kayseryan, 41, is the lead defendant in a scheme to structure millions of dollars in cash deposits designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements. The indictment alleges that Kayseryan and his co-conspirators deposited millions of dollars of TriMed checks into ‘funnel’ bank accounts set up in the names of shell companies.
Richard Kayseryan, the owner of TriMed Medical Wholesalers, Inc. in Burbank, California, was arrested and charged with a 20-count indictment for structuring millions of dollars in cash deposits designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements. If convicted of the 20 counts in the indictment, Kayseryan would face a statutory maximum of 94 years in prison.
Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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