Two Operators of a Van Nuys Company Arrested, Accused of Exporting $611 Million in Fraud-Obtained Electronics
On September 16, 2025, federal agents arrested Saman Delafraz and Benjamin Daneshgar in Los Angeles County, California. The U.S. Department of Justice said the two men ran Wireless World, a company based in Van Nuys, in Los Angeles County, and were charged with exporting hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of consumer electronics and gift cards, nearly all derived from criminal activities such as identity theft, credit card theft and fraud.
Delafraz, 32, of Woodland Hills, and Daneshgar, 34, of Studio City, are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and were expected to make their initial appearances the next day in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. If convicted, the defendants would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. A criminal complaint contains allegations, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Wireless World operates from warehouses in Van Nuys and New Castle, Delaware, aggregating electronics before shipping them out of the United States. Since 2019, Wireless World has exported more than $611 million in electronics from the United States, nearly all of which law enforcement believes to be crime proceeds. Pursuant to federal warrants, both warehouses and Delafraz's residence were searched that day, and Wireless World's bank accounts were seized.
The complaint alleges the company procured electronics and gift cards from many illicit sources. Blade Bai, 37, of El Monte, is serving a 15-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2023 of federal money laundering charges; the goods he sold to Wireless World were largely derived from telephone scams in which victims were duped into buying gift cards and providing the numbers, after which the cards were used to buy electronics and laundered into new gift cards to conceal the source of the funds. Juan Carlos Thola-Duran, 58, of Canyon Country, also sold electronics and gift cards to the company; he is in federal custody in a separate case, charged with acting as a coordinator and fence for South American crime tourism groups, and is scheduled to go to trial in January 2026.
The defendants also allegedly acquired electronics directly through fraud, buying from Best Buy, The Home Depot and other retailers using gift cards loaded with fraud proceeds, primarily via stolen credit cards, with the goods shipped directly to the Wireless World warehouse or to mailboxes the defendants controlled.
Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI are investigating the matter, with significant assistance from the Los Angeles Police Department and the Cobb County Police Department in Georgia. Assistant United States Attorneys Khaldoun Shobaki and Ryan J. Waters are prosecuting the case.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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