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The head of the Zort crypto trading platform, Adam Isa, paid three employees of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) $280,000 per month for illegally issuing search warrants and accessing police data. This is stated in the FBI indictment.
Admitting that Iza paid $280,000 a month to police officers
He is accused of using police information to coerce the alleged victim (identified as E.Z. in the documents) to hand over a laptop that was used to store cryptocurrencies.
Failed deal
According to a November 2021 report by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, E.Z. had known Iz for two years and was involved in the crypto business. Once he was giving a ride to his partner and he asked him to stop to buy food. After that, an SUV drove up to them, two men got out of it, one with a gun. He told both of them to get into the car.
E.Z fled and called the police, believing that they were trying to kidnap him to steal cryptocurrency.
Iza told the officer who arrived at the scene that E.Z. had agreed to pay $300,000 for the digital assets, but he had called his bodyguards to be on the safe side.
The men who arrived in the SUV were former LASD employees, one of them, an ex-sheriff's deputy, owns a security firm and works for Is. He had a pistol at the ready as he had allegedly been warned that E.Z. was armed.
Blackmail
After the incident, E.Z. was subjected to "intimidation and harassment" by Iza. He claims that he received frightening messages with information about him from the police database. The photos showed "the top of the LASD business card," the victim's family, and cars.
The complaint also states that Iza sent the hired private investigator "photos of classified law enforcement data" and an image of "a GPS tracking warrant from a phone number believed to belong to the victim".
In one of the messages, Iza called law enforcement officers "pawns"
The FBI said it later found a search warrant with the number E.Z., which was issued by a LASD deputy. He was accused of receiving money from Iz.
Charges
The complaint alleges payments to three Los Angeles sheriff's deputies, sometimes amounting to nearly $200,000, through Iza's crypto company and other businesses owned by his then-girlfriend.
One person interviewed by authorities said Iza and E.Z. broke into his home, with the former posing as an FBI agent. Iza was accused of stealing a laptop containing cryptocurrency and holding the alleged victim at gunpoint to obtain the password.
The Zort co-founder is also accused of hiding tens of millions of dollars in income and evading taxes.
Source
ADAM IZA (“IZA”), also
known as “Ahmed Faiq” and “The Godfather,”
Admitting that Iza paid $280,000 a month to police officers
He is accused of using police information to coerce the alleged victim (identified as E.Z. in the documents) to hand over a laptop that was used to store cryptocurrencies.
Failed deal
According to a November 2021 report by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, E.Z. had known Iz for two years and was involved in the crypto business. Once he was giving a ride to his partner and he asked him to stop to buy food. After that, an SUV drove up to them, two men got out of it, one with a gun. He told both of them to get into the car.
E.Z fled and called the police, believing that they were trying to kidnap him to steal cryptocurrency.
Iza told the officer who arrived at the scene that E.Z. had agreed to pay $300,000 for the digital assets, but he had called his bodyguards to be on the safe side.
The men who arrived in the SUV were former LASD employees, one of them, an ex-sheriff's deputy, owns a security firm and works for Is. He had a pistol at the ready as he had allegedly been warned that E.Z. was armed.
Blackmail
After the incident, E.Z. was subjected to "intimidation and harassment" by Iza. He claims that he received frightening messages with information about him from the police database. The photos showed "the top of the LASD business card," the victim's family, and cars.
The complaint also states that Iza sent the hired private investigator "photos of classified law enforcement data" and an image of "a GPS tracking warrant from a phone number believed to belong to the victim".
In one of the messages, Iza called law enforcement officers "pawns"
The FBI said it later found a search warrant with the number E.Z., which was issued by a LASD deputy. He was accused of receiving money from Iz.
Charges
The complaint alleges payments to three Los Angeles sheriff's deputies, sometimes amounting to nearly $200,000, through Iza's crypto company and other businesses owned by his then-girlfriend.
One person interviewed by authorities said Iza and E.Z. broke into his home, with the former posing as an FBI agent. Iza was accused of stealing a laptop containing cryptocurrency and holding the alleged victim at gunpoint to obtain the password.
The Zort co-founder is also accused of hiding tens of millions of dollars in income and evading taxes.
Source
ADAM IZA (“IZA”), also
known as “Ahmed Faiq” and “The Godfather,”
