Prosecutors are accusing four ex-law enforcement and military officers of conducting an elaborate, fake raid on a California man's home in 2019 in order to trick him into signing away his rights in a business worth tens of millions of dollars.
The victim, who was not named in the indictment, shared the business, a China-based rubber chemical manufacturer called Jiangsu Sinorgchem Technology Co. Ltd., with a “wealthy Chinese national," prosecutors said. The two had been in a costly legal dispute over the company for years. That same unnamed Chinese national that backed the sham raid and contacted one of the defendants, Max Samuel Bennett Turbett, with a plan to end the fight over the business, prosecutors alleged.
Turbett, 39, a U.K. citizen and former member of the British military along with three other men are now facing charges of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count of attempted extortion, one count of conspiracy against rights and one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
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