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Ammas Uddin

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The profile

A Richmond, Texas man sentenced in February 2024 to 18 months in prison and $498,415 in restitution to the SBA. He was charged in 2023, nearly three years after the Amir Aqeel PPP ring was first indicted.

Identity and role

Ammas Uddin, 31 at sentencing, of Richmond, Texas, was one of five men added to United States v. Aqeel, No. 4:20-cr-00583 (S.D. Tex.), by one-count criminal informations filed on September 12, 2023. The case against Amir Aqeel had been indicted in November 2020. Arham Uddin, also of Richmond, was charged the same day.

The scheme and pandemic-relief role

The Justice Department says the Aqeel ring obtained more than $20 million in forgivable PPP loans by overstating employee counts and average monthly payroll, backed by fake bank records and federal tax forms. Proceeds were moved out as checks to fake employees and cashed at check-cashing businesses, one of them owned by a co-conspirator. The December 2021 superseding indictment counts more than 80 applications between April and November 2020.

According to the Justice Department, Uddin and the other men sentenced with him supplied information about their businesses so that false loan applications could be filed. His restitution order, $498,415 owed jointly with Aqeel and Khalid Abbas, is the same amount, to the dollar, as a loan the superseding indictment lists for a company called AR20. The indictment names that applicant only as "Person 11."

  • Charged: criminal information (one count), September 12, 2023; initial appearance and arraignment September 25, 2023.
  • Pleaded guilty: October 2, 2023, before U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, under a plea agreement. The court entered a money judgment against him the same day (Doc. 607).
  • Sentenced: February 12, 2024, to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release and $498,415 in restitution to the SBA, with the money judgment folded into the judgment (entered February 27, 2024, Doc. 810).

Where they are now (2025–2026)

The court allowed him to report to the Bureau of Prisons on his own. We found no public record of him after the February 2024 judgment.

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