Florida-based Onur Aksoy, who owns a group of companies that operated several online stores, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after being proven guilty of selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network devices to several government, school, and military organizations. He also sold these products as new via Amazon and eBay customers in the U.S. and internationally.
According to court documents, Aksoy, who also held dual citizenship with Turkey, imported many modified network products via China and Hong Kong. He ran the operation under the name 'Pro Network Entities,' which had nineteen companies and 25 eBay and Amazon storefronts. Upon investigation, it was found that the networking gear used components from the older models modified to look like the newer, expensive devices.
