Customs Broker Sentenced to Over 4 Years in Federal Prison for Defrauding Clients Out of Millions of Dollars and Cheating on Taxes
December 22, 2025 – LOS ANGELES, CA – A Riverside County man and customs broker was sentenced on Friday to 51 months in 
federal prison for defrauding his clients – businesses who ship goods into the United States from foreign countries – out of more than $5 million, including after he already had been indicted on federal fraud charges, and to committing more than $1 million in tax evasion.
Frank Seung Noah, 63, of Corona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Josephine L. Staton, who also ordered him to pay $7,579,141 in restitution.
Noah pleaded guilty on February 7 to one count of tax evasion and two counts of wire fraud.
Noah owned and operated Comis International Inc., a Cerritos-based logistics and supply-chain company, which offered customs import brokerage services on behalf of businesses. From 2007 to 2019, Comis was a customs import broker for Daiso, a Japan-based variety and value store with stores in the United States, including Southern California.
During that time, Noah provided Daiso with false customs duty forms and invoices in support of fraudulent requests for reimbursement for duty fees. These forms differed materially from those Noah submitted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and inflated the total amounts, resulting in Daiso overpaying Noah nearly $3.4 million.
After Noah was indicted for defrauding Daiso in 2022, he continued to defraud his other clients out of more than $2 million using a different fraud scheme. Noah defrauded two other client companies by invoicing and receiving funds from the two victim companies, and then simply pocketing the funds instead of paying the customs duties to CBP. After CBP notified the victim clients of their unpaid customs duties, they asked Noah about the unpaid fees, and he sent the victim clients altered bank statements falsely reflecting that he had paid the customs duties.
Noah also willfully evaded payment of federal taxes resulting in a loss to the IRS of approximately $2.4 million, with penalties and interest continuing to accrue. After agreeing with the IRS that he owed more than $1 million in taxes in 2014, Noah actively avoided IRS attempts to collect the amount owed. This included paying for two homes in his former girlfriend’s name, using check cashing businesses to avoid IRS levies of his bank accounts, lying to IRS collection agents, and spending thousands of dollars on country club memberships, travel, and golf purchases.
IRS Criminal Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations investigated this matter with the assistance of United States Customs and Border Protection.
Assistant United States Attorneys Nandor F.R. Kiss and Robert J. Keenan of the Orange County Office prosecuted this case.
Source: DOJ Release
