TERROR ALERT - GROCERY STORE SCAMS

TERROR WATCH

GROCERY OPERATIONS ACROSS AMERICA

BABY-FORMULA SCAM –
CONTINUING MIDDLE-EAST STOREOWNER FRAUD


In the Eastern District of New York, federal charges were unsealed against Ibriham Qunbar and Salah Nabban, owners of Palco Trading LLC of Brooklyn New York. The United States Attorney charged the individuals in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, “to attempt to evade and defeat substantial income tax due and owing to the United States of America.” It’s alleged that they filed false and fraudulent income tax returns, filed for an S Corporation, defraud the United States for “impeding, impairing, obstructing and defeating the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service”.

These tax charges stem from a scheme by the two defendants in a scam involving stolen and expired baby formula. It’s alleged that Qunbar and Nabban through their company Palco Trading, LLC turned black-market infant formula into profits that they never reported to the IRS.

This scam has been an ongoing method of Middle Eastern Grocery Store Owners over the past 20 years. The sale of adulterated baby formula in the South West and the Mid-West was ongoing during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s by organized criminal Middle-Eastern enterprises affiliated with terror cell operations within the United States.

In this matter, Qunbar and Nabban owned a business that supplied grocery products by distribution to numerous grocery outlets. Palco Trading LLC is located at 791 Rogers Ave. Brooklyn, New York. This address has a history as being associated with Arab Mini-Marts during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s which was identified as “M & M Supermarket” then listed as affiliated and associated with Radwan Ayoub, the “Coupon King” of the 1980’s and 1990’s who helped finance the first bombing of the World Trade Center 1993, through more than $100 million dollars in coupon fraud in the New York Metropolitan area. It was Ayoub’s scheme that financed the World Trade center bombers, all whom have been convicted of the attack on the World Trade Center, and are serving more than 200 years in Federal Prison for their criminal attack.

Qunbar and Nabban are accused of buying baby formula for between $6000 and $16000 a batch, and then through Palco Trading distributed goods to grocery chains like Key Food and Associated Supermarkets. After securing the formula at under market prices, Qunbar and Nabban would contact the two manufacturers Ross and Mead Johnson a subsidiary of Bristol Meyers Squibb it’s alleged that they would seek refunds at full price.


At times they would buy stolen non-expired formula and sell it to groceries. It’s also alleged that at times they would create fake invoices to show that they purchased the formula at full-price from the corporations to receive the refunds, profits they never reported to the IRS.

It’s reported that they sold the store in 2003 for $1.6 million, two years before Qunbar was found guilty by jury trial for falsely reporting to federal officers at JFK Airport in New York City that he and his wife were bringing $12,000 in cash with them before a trip to Jordan. He actually had $22,687.

Is this an ongoing scheme by middle-eastern grocery store owners to defraud the manufacturers or is it a method of support of terror operations within the United States. Not to say the Qunbar or Nabban are affiliated with terror cell operations within the United States, it seems that the familiar behavior, the links to the storefront operations identified as a financial supporter of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and the use of Enfamil Baby Formula as a product to defraud the manufacturers and the IRS follows a pattern of years identified as affiliated with PLO operations, Hezbollah Terror financing, and Abu Nidal Terror operations in the Mid West.

Is this a coincidence or is it a method of business by middle–eastern businessmen to defraud, destabilize and impact American corporations.
E-MAIL US YOUR OPINION..