Sex pill sales lead to prison for Georgia couple
A husband and wife in Georgia charged with selling male enhancement products laced with drugs from China and falsely labeled as dietary supplements were not only sentenced to prison in February, a federal court has revoked their U.S. citizenship due to convictions for naturalization fraud.To get more news about
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U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones sentenced both 48-year-old Irfanali Momin and 42-year-old Shiba I. Momin (a/k/a Saguftabanu Momin), both of Dahlonega, Ga., to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
Their prison sentences were handed down Feb. 12, three days after a South Korean national illegally living in the United States met the same fate in California—a sentence of imprisonment—for unlawfully importing bulk quantities of erectile dysfunction drugs marketed as herbal male sexual enhancement products.
Between August 2014 and November 2018, the Momins ordered and sold male enhancement products from China marketed under such names as “Black Ant King,” “Hard Steel,” “Super Hard” and “Rhino 69,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Although the products were labeled as dietary supplements, they contained sildenafil and/or tadalafil, active pharmaceutical ingredients in FDA-approved prescription drugs, federal authorities said.
The couple’s China-based suppliers mislabeled the boxes containing the pills to make it appear the boxes held goods that can be legally imported into the U.S., such as beauty products, health products and health supplies, according to a Feb. 24 news release from DOJ. The Momins admitted to selling between $550,000 and $1.5 million in illegal drug products over the course of the conspiracy, DOJ said.
Other fraudulent behavior by the Momins also caught law enforcement’s attention. In October 2013, in an application to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, Irfanali Momin falsely asserted he had never been married previously and failed to reveal he had been wed to two women at the same time, according to DOJ. He made the same false statements during an interview in June 2014 with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), DOJ said.
According to DOJ, USCIS would have denied citizenship to Shiba Momin, had they known she obtained a fraudulent driver’s license in Georgia under a name she used to apply for and receive U.S. citizenship—Saguftabanu Momin. In her application, DOJ explained, she falsely stated she did not go by any names other than Saguftabanu Momin when her actual name was Shiba I. Momin.
In September, Irfanali and Shiba Momin each pleaded guilty to naturalization fraud, as well as conspiring to illegally import misbranded drug products from China, receive misbranded drugs that had moved in interstate commerce, and to trafficking of counterfeit goods.
In a sentencing memorandum, Irfanali Momin’s lawyer, Devin A. Rafus, said his client was born in 1972 in Amdabar, India, acquired his bachelor’s degree in psychology from a university in India (Gujarat Law Society) and arrived in Georgia in 1999, where a friend with whom he stayed hired him to work at Dairy Queen.
Irfanali Momin later worked for gas stations in Atlanta for a number of years before he went on to acquire and manage two Dairy Queen locations with his wife, Shiba Momin, from 2008 to 2011 that they eventually closed due to the recession.
In letters to the judge overseeing the case, made public in the sentencing memo, several people who had known the couple for years attested to their character. Many said the duo cared deeply for their teenage daughter.
