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Former Airline Executive Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in New York
Shukhratjon Mirsaidov, a former senior executive of an international airline with a hub at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, has pleaded guilty to participating in a money laundering conspiracy from June 2019 to February 2022.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Southern District of New York, Mirsaidov used a U.S. company bank account for the airline to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars of healthcare fraud proceeds. He deposited over 100 checks drawn from accounts controlled by seven shell companies into the account, and in exchange, provided cash generated from airline ticket sales to his co-defendant, Shukhrat Abdullaev.
The scheme involved a check-cashing scheme and the laundering of funds represented to be fraud proceeds in a series of sting transactions. Law enforcement, with the assistance of a confidential source, conducted a series of sting money laundering transactions involving Mirsaidov, Abdullaev, and the airline’s bank account.
During the transactions, the confidential source provided Abdullaev with 14 checks totaling $210,000 issued from a covert law enforcement account. Mirsaidov, working with Abdullaev, deposited 12 of the checks totaling $190,000 into the airline’s bank account. The confidential source received cash from Abdullaev in exchange for the checks, and in one instance, Abdullaev coordinated the delivery of U.S. currency to an individual abroad in exchange for some of the checks.
Mirsaidov admitted to receiving many checks from Abdullaev and giving him cash in exchange for the checks. The confidential source informed Mirsaidov that the checks came from a medical company and that the company disguised the check payments in its financial reporting by claiming the check deposits were for business purposes.
The case demonstrates that money launderers, no matter what their station, will be held accountable by this Office.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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