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Nature of Suit Code: 690
Nature of Suit: Other Forfeiture and Penalty Suits
Cause of Action: 28:1345 Complaint for Forfeiture

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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

KRISTIN S. DOOR, SBN 84307

Assistant U.S. Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2723

 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

)

Plaintiff, ) 2:06-CV-0509-FCD-KJM

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v. )

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ALL FUNDS HELD IN ACCOUNT ) STIPULATION TO STAY

LEIKA-85157 AT BANCA ) PROCEEDINGS AND ORDER

UNIONE DI CREDITO IN THE ) THEREON

APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF )

$1,197,945.32, PLUS ANY )

ACCRUED INTEREST, )

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ALL FUNDS HELD IN ACCOUNT )

BUGGY-85192 AT BANCA )

UNIONE DI CREDITO IN THE )

APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF )

$280,860.62, PLUS ANY )

ACCRUED INTEREST, )

)

ALL FUNDS HELD IN ACCOUNT )

SULKY-85172 AT BANCA )

UNIONE DI CREDITO IN THE )

APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF )

$237,089.55, PLUS ANY )

ACCRUED INTEREST, and )

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ALL FUNDS HELD IN ACCOUNT )

BONAVENTURA - 2190175 AT )

BANCA UNIONE DI CREDITO IN )

THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF )

$503,456.54, PLUS ANY )

ACCRUED INTEREST, )

)

 Defendants. )

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Plaintiff United States of America and claimants Konstantin

Grigoryan, Mayya Grigoryan, and Bonaventure Business, Inc.,

[hereafter “Claimants”], by and through their respective counsel,

hereby stipulate that a stay is necessary in the above-entitled

action, and request that the Court enter an order staying all

further proceedings pending the outcome of a related criminal

case. 

1. Claimants filed a claim on May 16, 2006. The claimants

are each defendants in a parallel criminal case pending in the

Central District of California arising out of the same or similar

transactions and events that give rise to this civil forfeiture

action. See United States v. Konstantin Grigoryan, et al., CR.

No. 06-299 SVW. 

2. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 981(g)(1) and 981(g)(2), the

parties seek a stay of proceedings in this case. The United

States contends inter alia that the defendant funds, which are

currently held at Banca Unione De Credito in Switerzland, are

subject to civil forfeiture because they are the proceeds of

claimants' fraudulent activity that includes but is not limited

to submitting false claims to Medicare and money laundering. 

The United States intends to depose claimants and question them

about the claims each has filed in this action. If discovery

proceeds, claimants would be placed in the difficult position of

either invoking their Fifth Amendment rights against selfincrimination and impairing and possibly losing the ability to

prove their claims, or waiving their Fifth Amendment rights and

submitting to a deposition and potentially incriminating

themselves in the pending criminal matter. 

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3. Similarly, Claimants would attempt to serve written

discovery requests on the United States and depose the federal

law enforcement agents who were involved in the investigation

that led to claimants' indictment in the Central District of

California. Allowing discovery at this point, and in

particular, allowing the depositions of the law enforcement

investigators involved in this investigation and prosecution,

would adversely affect the ability of the government to properly

prosecute the Grigoryan case.

4. Accordingly, the parties recognize that proceeding with

this action at this time has potential adverse affects on the

prosecution of the related-criminal case and/or upon Claimants’

ability to prove their claim that the defendant funds belong to

them, and that they came from legitimate sources. For these

reasons, the parties jointly request that this matter be stayed

until the conclusion of the criminal case. 

5. Nothing in this stipulation shall be construed to

interfere with, or limit, the parties' efforts to repatriate the

above-captioned funds to the United States so that they may be

held by the U.S. Department of Treasury pending the outcome of

this forfeiture action. See the Stipulation and Order to

Repatriate Funds, signed by this Court on May 31, 2006.

Dated: August 3, 2006 McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

/s/ Kristin S. Door________________

Assistant U.S. Attorney

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Dated: August 3, 2006 /s/ Paul L. Gabbert

PAUL L. GABBERT

Attorney for Claimants 

Konstantin Grigoryan, Mayya 

Grigoryan, and Bonaventure 

Business, Inc.

(Original signatures retained by

attorney for United States)

ORDER

The Court adopts the parties' stipulation in full. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 4, 2006 /s/ Frank C. Damrell Jr. 

FRANK C. DAMRELL, JR. 

United States District Judge

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