Hunt underway for former San Jose water company employee stole $9 million

Mercury News ^ | 5/13/09 | Howard Mintz

[NormsRevenge]

Federal agents are on the hunt for a former California Water Services Company employee who quit his job a few weeks ago, broke into the firm's computers to wire $9 million into overseas bank accounts and then fled the region when confronted with criminal charges in Santa Clara County.

In court documents filed today in federal court in San Jose, law enforcement officials have charged Abdirahman Ismail Abdi with unlawful flight from prosecution after he disappeared from the area earlier this month. Local prosecutors and police determined that Abdi has been trying to flee the country since at least May 1, when he tried to book a flight to London just days after police searched his South Bay home.

Court papers show that Abdi, 32, resigned from his job as an auditor for the San Jose-based water company on April 27, and was spotted by a janitor returning that night to the office of a former co-worker. The following morning, water officials discovered that Abdi had engineered three wire transfers totalling more than $9 million from the company's accounts to an account in Qatar. The accounts were frozen and the money returned to the water company, according to court papers.

[SkyDancer]

Something tells me there’s a movie plot in this ......

[NormsRevenge]

he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia.

[al baby]

DB Cooper is now retiring over seas

[xcamel]

A MooseLimb???
Raiding the infidels coffers???

[kalee]

Abdirahman Ismail Abdi
funding terrorists?

[Old Sarge]

Abdirahman Ismail Abdi

Damned Amish...

[Paladin2]

"The accounts were frozen and the money returned to the water company"

That financial jihad stuff doesn't always pay off.

[Big_Monkey]

"he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia.

OH. That's rich. Sometimes, you really can't make this crap up.

[pissant]

Never trust a jihadist.

[Gay State Conservative]

I say he conspired to commit terrorism.Catch him...convict him (military tribunal)....and string him up.

[SouthTexas]

charged Abdirahman Ismail Abdi with unlawful flight from prosecution

Always wondered if there is a "lawful" flight to avoid prosecution.

[Ezekiel]

[Abdirahman Ismail] Abdi had engineered three wire transfers totalling more than $9 million from the company's accounts to an account in Qatar.

Probably just a slush fund for Starbucks coffee.

[Paladin2]

Maybe 0bama could invite to one of those WH Wed. night parties so he could receive a proper apology.

[freekitty]

Thanks Obama.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia."

Does ANYBODY take deportation orders seriously? It's gotta be akin to receiving a strongly worded letter from the UN.

[Ghengis]

he was ordered to be deported in 2005.. to Somalia.

With that last name, I was checking to see if he was Somali. The Somali who plotted to blow up a local mall had the same last name. Seems a common name for their country.

[Jim from C-Town]

Does anybody else feal a little sick thinking about the fact that a person who was orderred deported four years ago was working for and receiving a paycheck with full benefits from a government entity. Unemployment of American citizen's is at 9%, Over 10% in California, 1/2 a million workers are being fired a month, and an illegal Somali immigrant is drawing a top pay government check.

I guess it really is impossible to fire a government worker!

[dennisw]

Not too much effort will be made to collar this Somalian criminal because the money was taken back from him. I sure hope his children are not US citizens...they could return to plague us

[dennisw]

Nothing good comes from Somalia and Kenya has a border with it ....hmmmmm....