| A dual citizen of Iran and Canada was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for international money laundering.
Omid Mashinchi, 35, was sentenced to two years in prison and one year of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and a personal money judgment of approximately $7,616.
Mashinchi pleaded guilty to five counts of international money laundering in July. He was charged in a sealed indictment in January 2018 and arrested in April 2018, when he fled to the United States; he has been in federal custody since.
On five occasions in 2017, Mashinchi transferred funds from a bank in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to a bank in Boston knowing that the money was derived from drug trafficking.
Mashinchi transferred $37,794 on Jan. 28; he made two transfers on July 28, one for $49,915 and another for $49,445; and he made two more transfers on Aug. 3, one for $49,930 and another in the amount of $49,645.
