Leonid Teyf

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.

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.

[1] 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.

[4] Tatyana later told authorities that she was a victim of domestic violence, stating that Teyf beat her and, in one incident, lit her clothes that she was wearing on fire.

[10] 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 March 2017, and again in April 2018, Teyf paid John Patrick Cotter, a lifelong friend and business associate, to meet with agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and persuade to investigate the housekeeper's son for either a fraudulent marriage or firearms possession.

[8] In December 2018 Teyf and his wife were arrested after FBI agents raided their $5 million mansion in North Ridge Country Club.

The informant told federal agents that he had hand delivered three large shipments of cash to a Russian defense minister.

[13][18] 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.

[8] Grigory, at the time a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, was asked by federal prosecutor Jason Kellhofer if he was being groomed to take over his father's business affairs.

[26] Tatiana Teyf pleaded guilty to the felony of making false statements in her naturalization process, and sentenced to time served.