On Friday, U.S. District Court of the NMI Designated Judge David Wiseman ordered the unsealing of the U.S. government’s affidavit in support of an application for a search and seizure warrant.
“The requested unsealing is now appropriate and would no longer jeopardize the effectiveness of the government’s ongoing investigation of criminal tax violations,” stated Assistant U.S. Attorney Beverly McCallum in her motion to unseal.
Shaun Morita, special agent of the IRS’s criminal investigation, executed the search and seizure warrant on Feb. 25.
In his affidavit, Morita said “there exists probable cause to believe that now located on the premises [of United International Corp.] are fruits, evidence, and instrumentalities of criminal offenses against the United States,” such as tax evasion, willful failure to collect or pay over tax, and false tax return.
Records showed that UIC was incorporated on July 5, 1985, and its first year of operation was in 1986.
The corporate shareholders were James C. Lin (20 percent) and Shu-Tsun Huang (80 percent), who are both U.S. citizens.
The corporate officers were Lin as president, Huang as vice president, and Hsia-Lung H. Lin as secretary/treasurer.
UIC’s business office continued to operate after it ceased operations on Sept. 21, 2008, records showed.
UIC was among the largest garment manufacturers of Saipan.
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