Leonid Teyf
Russian-Israeli white collar criminal
Leonid Isaakovich Teyf (Russian: Леонид Исаакович Тейф, Hebrew: לאוניד טייף) is a Russian-Israeli businessman and white-collar criminal. He served as the deputy director of Voentorg, a company that contracted with the Russian Ministry of Defense to provide goods and services to the Russian Military.
In December 2018 Teyf and his wife were arrested by FBI agents and his mansion in Raleigh, North Carolina was raided as part of an investigation into a money laundering and murder-for-hire scheme. Teyf was alleged to have profited $150 million in a kickback scheme involving the Russian Government. On March 19, 2021, the United States Government dropped 47 counts out of a 50-count indictment against Teyf, including the charges of money laundering and murder-for-hire. Teyf pled guilty to bribing a federal agent $10,000 to deport the son of his housekeeper, with whom he suspected his wife was having an affair; to lying on his visa application about his anticipated yearly salary; and to omitting his financial holdings in a foreign bank account in his 2012 tax returns. Teyf agreed to forfeit $5.9 million, and agreed to be deported upon conclusion of his 5-year prison sentence.
Personal life
Leonid Teyf was born in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Belarus). Teyf is a dual citizen of Israel and Russia and has traveling visas from Belarus, Serbia, and the United States. In 2005 Teyf married Tatyana Anatolyevna Teyf in Russia.
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