The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Mohammed Zohair Adi was sentenced in the Southern District of Alabama to 180 months in prison for money laundering conspiracy and providing false testimony in court. According to court documents, Adi helped launder millions of dollars for a drug trafficking organization that transported more than 1,000 kilograms of high-grade marijuana from California to Alabama, including on commercial flights using drug couriers. Adi used multiple corporate entities and bank accounts to conceal drug sale proceeds and at times structured transactions to avoid currency transaction reporting requirements. The laundered funds were used to support drug trafficking and maintain California real estate, including properties used as marijuana grow sites. After pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering on January 30, 2023, Adi later falsely testified at a co-defendant's detention hearing and lied to the Drug Enforcement Administration about prohibited contacts with that co-defendant while on pretrial release. He pleaded guilty to providing false testimony on March 2, 2026. The court said he was a leader of the laundering conspiracy and also imposed a USD 50,000 fine and three years of supervised release. Co-defendant Navjit Bhullar is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29. Ten co-defendants have already been sentenced.
U.S. Department of Justice2026-05-18
U.S. Department of Justice secures 180 month sentence for California man who laundered millions for marijuana traffickers and lied under oath
The U.S. Department of Justice reported that Mohammed Zohair Adi was sentenced in the Southern District of Alabama to 180 months in prison, a USD 50,000 fine and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit money laundering and providing false testimony. Adi used multiple corporate entities and bank accounts to launder millions of dollars in drug proceeds for a marijuana trafficking organization and structured transactions to evade reporting, and later lied to a court and the Drug Enforcement Administration about contacts with a co-defendant.