Leonid Teyf

Leonid Isaakovich Teyf (, ) is a Russian-Israeli businessman and white-collar criminal. He served as the deputy director of Voentorg, a company that contracted with the Russian Ministry of Defense to provide goods and services to the Russian Military.

In December 2018 Teyf and his wife were arrested by FBI agents and his mansion in Raleigh, North Carolina was raided as part of an investigation into a money laundering and murder-for-hire scheme. Teyf was alleged to have profited $150 million in a kickback scheme involving the Russian Government. On March 19, 2021, the United States Government dropped 47 counts out of a 50-count indictment against Teyf, including the charges of money laundering and murder-for-hire. Teyf pled guilty to bribing a federal agent $10,000 to deport the son of his housekeeper, with whom he suspected his wife was having an affair; to lying on his visa application about his anticipated yearly salary; and to omitting his financial holdings in a foreign bank account in his 2012 tax returns. Teyf agreed to forfeit $5.9 million, and agreed to be deported upon conclusion of his 5-year prison sentence. Teyf is a dual citizen of Israel and Russia and has traveling visas from Belarus, Serbia, and the United States. They have three children. He and his family immigrated from Russia to the United States in 2010 and took up residence in Raleigh, North Carolina. Teyf purchased the Painter House, a mansion in North Ridge Country Club, in 2014. The couple filed for divorce in 2017. Teyf expressed wanting to pay someone to get the son to confess to the affair and then overdose him on drugs. Teyf devised a plan to plant $15,000 worth of narcotics in the housekeeper's son's car so that he would arrested and deported back to Russia.

In December 2018 Teyf and his wife were arrested after FBI agents raided their $5 million mansion in North Ridge Country Club. They were detained by the Wake County Sheriff's Office. The couple were indicted on 29 combined charges including money laundering, conspiracy in a series of money laundering, aiding and abetting in money laundering, bribery of a public official, murder for hire, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The source also told agents that Teyf had ordered him to offer $400,000 to Russian agents once the Russian government opened an investigation into Teyf's financial scheme. Teyf profited off of the $150 million kickback scheme, using offshore bank accounts and foreign shell companies to launder funds into his American bank accounts.

Since December 2010 Teyf had opened over 70 financial accounts at four separate banks and wired money into these accounts from Belize, Panama, Seychelles, and the British Virgin Islands.

Teyf reportedly provided Russian army catering contracts to a company owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was indicted by Robert Mueller following his investigation into the 2016 United States presidential election.

In January 2019 new documents from the investigation charged Alexey Vladimirovich Timofeev and Olesya Yuryevna Timofeeva in the case. Timofeeva was charged with one count of conspiracy to harbor aliens. Timofeev, who worked for Teyf as the president of CTK Transportation Inc., one of the businesses used in the money laundering scheme, was charged with seven counts of money laundering and spending laundered money and one count of conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens.

A trial was proposed for April 2019 by District Judge Louise Flanagan.

In October 2019 Teyf was indicted by a federal grand jury in Utah after court documents revealed that he was involved in a trucking company scheme, paying more than one million dollars in bribes to the Utah FedEx ground hub manager.

Teyf pleaded guilty to the felonies of bribery of a public official, visa fraud, and making false statements on his tax returns, all felonies. He was released after serving five years in local and federal custody, and was to be deported. Tatiana Teyf pleaded guilty to the felony of making false statements in her naturalization process, and sentenced to time served. The Teyfs agreed to forfeit $5.9 million they had in banks, as well as various amounts of seized cash, and Leonid Teyf agreed to pay a $99,000 penalty for the tax violation.