Three South Florida residents who engaged in an elaborate multi-million dollar baby formula scheme were all sentenced to 18 years in prison last week.
According to a statement from the US Attorney’s Southern District of Florida office, the three fraudsters are Johnny Grobman, 48, Raoul Doekhie, 53 and his wife, Sherida Nabi, 57.
In addition to losing their freedom, they face massive financial forfeiture. Grobman will hand over $115 million to the Feds, while Doekhie and Nabi will fork over $87 million jointly.
Another man who was implicated in the scam, Edgar Torres, 61, of Florida, pleaded guilty to wire fraud before the trial began. He was listed as the president of a shipping company named Le Mare Transport that assisted in the scheme.
One of the masterminds of the scam, Johnny Grobman, will hand over $115 million to the feds including his $5.2 million home in Miami’s Golden Beach
Grobman’s home is a 6 bedroom mansion in Golden Beach, an area that has counted Ricky Marti, and Tommy Hilfiger among its famous former residents
Raoul Doekhie and Sherida Nabi lived here at Las Olas By the River in a three-bedroom condo that is about to become the property of the federal government
The trio sentenced this week ran a five-year scheme that saw them produce false documents and bogus export papers to Doekhie’s homeland, Suriname.
Between 2013 and 2018, they received discounts from major US manufacturers of infant formula, eye-care products, and other…
