US DoJ seeks to forfeit a $30M Beverly Hills mansion allegedly bought with laundered proceeds from a major bribery and fraud scheme tied to $700M in U.S. military contracts

US DOJ alleges that the property was acquired and renovated using funds obtained through a scheme to defraud the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in connection with military fuel contracts, alongside bribes paid to an official in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The civil forfeiture action also alleges violations of U.S. money-laundering laws, reflecting efforts to recover assets derived from corruption and prevent the U.S. financial system from being used to conceal illicit proceeds…