Tampa Man Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering

Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Khanjar Ahmad Dandache (59, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to money laundering.  He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.

According to the plea agreement, in June and July 2015, Dandache met repeatedly with a DEA confidential source (CS) and agreed to launder what he believed were heroin proceeds. Dandache had planned to receive funds from the CS, deposit them into numerous bank accounts in the United States, and then purchase vehicles with the funds. He had planned to ship the vehicles from Florida to Lebanon for re-sale and eventually transfer the funds to the heroin sources of supply. Dandache met with the CS and an undercover DEA agent on July 8, 2015, accepted $150,000 in purported heroin proceeds, and was subsequently arrested.

This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Christopher F. Murray.