lying to federal investigators.Like Mones, Marin owns a flight charter company that allegedly arranged flights for El Aissami and Lopez.
He was not charged in the case but was arrested in September in Miami for allegedly lying to his handlers about the equivalent of $140,000 that went missing from a package of 1.3 million euros he transported by private jet to the U.S.
in 2018 at the direction of U.S. law enforcement. Mones’ attorney, Christine Chung, said in court filings that the late production of evidence against her client mirrors problems detected in the high-profile sanctions case against Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad.