Massachusetts Man Convicted In ‘Operation Good Fortune’ Money Laundering Case, Federal Sentence Handed Down

Boston – Weymouth resident who participated in money laundering in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood received a prison sentence.

The Chinatown money laundering ring “Operation Good Fortune” nets eight people.
In the course of the probe, known as “Operation Good Fortune,” Chengzou Liu, 38, was a major marijuana dealer who used China Gourmet, a restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown district, to launder his drug proceeds, which totaled over $170,000.

After that, the funds were transferred to several US banks and accounts Liu had provided in China.

A trade-based scheme that used stolen and/or fraudulent gift cards to buy and ship thousands of Apple products internationally was also included in the July 2022 indictment of eight individuals for their alleged roles in complex money laundering and money transmitting conspiracies that laundered proceeds worth tens of millions of dollars from drug trafficking.

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Qiu Mei Zeng and Shi Rong Zhang shared ownership of China Gourmet.

Qiu Mei Zeng, 47, of Quincy; Vincent Feng, 32, of Quincy; Da Zeng, 30, of Massachusetts; and Shi Rong Zhang, 48, of Windham, N.H.
Quincy resident Wei Qing Zeng, 58,
Hanover resident Xian Rong Zeng, 45
Chengzou, New Hampshire’s Qiu Fang Zeng, 59, Braintree resident Liu, 36

Liu was sentenced to two years in jail and three years of supervised release after entering a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit money laundering and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.