6 southern California companies ordered to pay $1.83 billion in restitution for scheming to avoid payment of aluminum duties

Businesses conspired with Chinese billionaire to defraud investors by inflating value of China-based company via sham sales of aluminum in the US

Special agents from HSI teamed with industry, CBP, Los Angeles metropolitan area police officers, and other public-private sector partners to identify online marketplaces, flea markets, retail outlets, pop-up shops and street vendors selling counterfeit goods during the weeks leading up to Super Bowl LVI (56). They seized items such as fake jerseys, hats, rings, t-shirts, jackets, tickets, souvenirs, and thousands of other sports related memorabilia prepared to be marketed as legitimate, authentic items.