DETROIT (WXYZ) — How did a young man allegedly help people send almost $9 million to the Middle East illegally before being stopped by authorities?
That is a big question raised by an indictment filed against 26-year-old Hitham Noman.
It says the alleged crimes happened between August 2014 and March 2015 when the young man would have been only about 21-years-old.
He is accused of creating front businesses that he used to send millions of dollars overseas.
Investigators say he charged people from around the country a fee to send money through his businesses, even though he did not have a license to run a money transferring business. In the course of only about 8 months he transferred $8,967,516, much of it to Yemen.
When banks would shut down suspicious accounts he allegedly created new businesses. As a result he is charged with causing the filing of false currency transaction reports and operating an unlicensed money transferring business.
The indictment does not reveal who he was sending the money for and why.
7 Action News reached out to Noman for comment, but as of the publishing of this story we have not heard back. We will update this with any comments he makes.
