A Uzbekistan national was sentenced in Florida to 19 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for transportation of child sex abuse materials (CSAM).
Sulton Nuriev, 39, Uzbekistan, pled guilty on September 26, 2023.
According to court documents, on January 13, 2022, Nuriev left the United States from Orlando, Florida, to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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On February 20, 2022, he flew from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to Orlando, Florida. Upon Nuriev’s reentry to the United States, an agent with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conducted a border search of Nuriev’s cellphone and located child sex abuse images on the phone.
Further forensic investigation revealed that while Nuriev was abroad, he was posing online as a 12-year-old boy and enticing minor females to produce sexually explicit images of themselves.
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This case was investigated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Shannon Laurie and Assistant United States Attorney Courtney Richardson-Jones.
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