California business owner sentenced for conspiring to sell counterfeit microelectronics to the US military

Mustafa Abdul Aljaff , a California business owner has recently been sentenced to 30 months in prison for conspiring to sell counterfeit integrated circuits to the U.S. military, defence contractors and others. Aljaff must also pay $177,862 in restitution to the semiconductor companies whose trademarks were infringed as a result of his criminal conduct.
Aljaff and others sold the counterfeit devices, which included military-grade parts, through a cleverly designed web of corporations to unsuspecting customers in the United States and abroad, according to the government's evidence.
During his guilty plea, Aljaff agreed that on more than 20 separate occasions, he and others imported into the United States from China and Hong Kong, approximately 13,073 integrated circuits bearing counterfeit trademarks, including military-grade markings.

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