Army contracting officer indicted on charges of smuggling US, Iraqi cash worth nearly $120,000

Army officer charged with smuggling cash from Iraq

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A grand jury in Tennessee has indicted an Army officer on federal charges of smuggling more than $100,000 out of Iraq.

The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that 46-year-old Maj. Charles E. Sublett of Huntsville, Ala., was arrested Monday on charges of bulk cash smuggling and making a false statement.

Sublett supervised supply contracts while serving at the Balad Regional Contracting Center in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

The indictment says that in 2005, customs officials in Memphis intercepted a package that Sublett sent from Balad. The customs declaration listed no cash but the package contained nearly $108,000 in U.S. cash and another $11,600 worth of Iraqi dinar.

A message left at an Alabama phone listing for Sublett wasn’t immediately returned Tuesday.