Annandale Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Millions in Counterfeit Software
Quynh Trong Nguyen, 36, charged with copyright infringement after allegedly defrauding 2,000 customers
An Annandale man pleaded guilty Thursday to copyright infringement for selling more than $2.3 million in counterfeit computer software.
Quynh Trong Nguyen, 36, allegedly sold the copyright-infringing computer software for more than three years, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Nguyen has also agreed to forfeit more than $650,000 in seized liquid assets, the release said.
Court documents related to the case say Nguyen sold software such as Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office through Internet websites he created in his Annandale home. The software was acquired from overseas. The release states that an estimated 2,000 customers were defrauded.
Nguyen was also accused of falsely representing himself as buyer and seller of educational software in connection with George Mason University. According to the release, Nguyen “then altered the educational software, which he later sold at higher prices, by painting over labels and modifying the product packaging.”
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
keith mahone
10:55 am on Friday, August 10, 2012
I don't have a problem with what this hardworking entrepreneur did. Is it any worse than these same corporations and their allies flooding the labor market with counterfeit "citizens" in order to lower the price of the things they buy?
Let the man go. He did NOTHING wrong. Or if he did, let's have round after round of perp walks and slam-dunk trials among the ranks of the self-styled politicos and captains of industry.
HungryPig
8:41 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
This should be a civil case, and i wondering that why the fed involved into this? Because, those money that had been seized. Oops, I guess after this case the pig will be full. What's a beautiful country.
HungryPig
8:51 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
This should be a civil case, and i wondering that why the fed involved into this? Because, those money that had been seized. Oops, I guess after this case the pig will be full. What's a beautiful country.