Via NationalTerrorAlert.com -
Mohammed Afzal Sodagar is facing charges that include identity theft, possession of phony ID and domestic battery. He was arrested after Morton Grove police responded to a call for help from his son and searched the family home.
In court documents, prosecutor Sharon Kanter says police found $59,000 and a dozen different passports from Pakistan, Jamaica and the United States, each with a different name. Kanter says officials also found eleven Illinois ID cards with Sodagar’s photo but different names and dozens of credit cards and Social Security cards.
In press releases and news reports over the last two years, Sodagar has portrayed himself as CEO of a company called Eye-TV and as a contact for at least two prominent Chicago Muslim groups.
Sodagar appeared in court Monday, and his attorney says he’ll plead not-guilty.
According to Fox News Chicago, there were so many bogus documents the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have been called in.
A quick search of the Internet only turned up this site, Mohammed Afzal Sodagar.
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According to the Chicago Tribune, Sodagr was born in Pakistan but is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
The investigation of Sodagr, now charged with 22 counts of felony identity theft, started when his son reported that his father had threatened to shoot him, authorities said Tuesday.
Officers were looking for weapons last week when they searched the home of Mohammad Afzal Sodagar in the 8600 block of Frontage Drive.
What they found instead were hundreds of credit cards, 11 Illinois identification cards with Sodagar's photos—but bearing other names—on them, at least 36 Social Security cards, gold coins and bars and more than $60,000 in cash, said a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Bail for Sodagar, 51, was set at $3 million during a hearing Monday in the Skokie branch of Circuit Court. He was charged Saturday.
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