Extracted from Gainsville Sun’s article: “Air exec gets 13 years for drug trafficking, money laundering”
A Guyanese man, who owned a charter airline and maintenance company based in Gainesville and serving Ocala,was sentenced Friday to 13 years in federal prison for trafficking hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the New Jersey-New York area and laundering more than $10.2 million, federal officials announced.
Khamraj Lall, 52, of Ringwood, New Jersey, was found guilty in October 2018 by a federal jury in Trenton on multiple charges, including conspiracy to distribute cocaine, money laundering, structuring monetary instruments and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson imposed the sentence Friday in Trenton federal court, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey.
From April 2011 through November 2014, Lall, a private pilot, smuggled hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Guyana to New Jersey and New York on his privately owned jet aircraft and then laundered the proceeds.
Lall owned a private jet charter business called Exec Jet Club based in Gainesville and used the proceeds of his cocaine empire to buy jet planes, houses and cars, the news release said.
