Former FBI agent guilty of taking bribes from Armenian Mob

WORLD  05 October 2022 - 19:30

A former FBI agent based out of the bureau’s San Francisco office was found guilty of taking bribes from a lawyer linked to an Armenian organised crime unit in exchange for handing over “sensitive law enforcement” information.

Fifty-six-year-old Broumand was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, two counts of bribery of a public official and one count of monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, Report informs referring to the US Attorney’s Office.

Babak Broumand, who was an FBI agent from 1999 to 2018, took roughly $150,000 in cash, private jet flights, hotel stays, escorts and even a Ducati as bribes for helping the lawyer’s mafia clients avoid law enforcement monitoring and prosecution. The bribes were handed over from 2015 to 2018.

In 2015, Broumand was asked by the lawyer to access the FBI file and search databases for Levon Termendzhyan, aka Lev Aslan Dermen. The US Attorney’s Office described Termendzhyan as an Armenian organised crime figure who was convicted in federal court in Utah in 2020 for his part in a $1 billion biodiesel tax credit fraud scheme.

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