Ausaf Umar Siddiqui

Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, is being probed about over $100 million of his transactions through casinos owned by Las Vegas Sands. Separately, he was arrested in 2009 and pleaded guilty to accepting illegal kickbacks in his job as an executive with Fry’s Electronics in California. He is now serving a six-year jail term. Siddiqui, who was vice president of merchandising and operations at the electronics chain from 2003 until he was fired in 2008, pleaded guilty before Fogel in February to one count of fraud and one count of money laundering. U.S. Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator Scott O’Briant said evidence in the case showed that Siddiqui made secret deals with vendors to pay kickbacks to two sham companies controlled by Siddiqui. Defense attorney Paul Meltzer said in a sentencing brief that Siddiqui suffered from a gambling addiction.