DSS & FBI Raid Detroit Car Yard — $147M Found in G-Wagon Frames, Iran Drone Network Exposed

At 4:30 AM on June 9, 2026, federal teams breached Cedar Auto Export's Hamtramck yard. Inside 90 Mercedes G-Wagons sitting in the staging lot — vacuum-sealed currency stacked in modified frame cavities. $147 million. Payment from an IRGC financial intermediary to 14 North American suppliers moving drone guidance components to Iran. The decision to raid came 48 hours after Iran announced a partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Inside: how $147M in physical currency bypassed the entire U.S. anti-money laundering architecture by never becoming a transaction, why DSS moved with 12 of 14 suppliers still unidentified, and what a 23-year-old yard worker saw on a Tuesday night in November that changed the scope of the entire investigation. DSS Financial Crimes, FBI Detroit, OFAC | Cedar Auto Export LLC, Hamtramck | $147M seized | 90 modified G-Wagons | 64 boxes drone components at Halifax | 12 supplier warrants pending In late October 2025, OFAC analyst Chen Wei pulled a file that should have been a routine false-positive review — seven wire transfers from Cyprus, Valletta, and Dubai, all landing in American LLC accounts, all originating from institutions with links to an IRGC-adjacent financial intermediary flagged in classified intelligence 18 months prior. All seven LLCs had made payments to Cedar Auto Export, Hamtramck, Michigan. DSS Agent Marcus Webb found a 24-vehicle discrepancy between Cedar's declared exports to Dubai and confirmed UAE import records — one year, one buyer. Surveillance deployed November 2025 documented twice-weekly late-night modification sequences in Cedar's sealed rear bay: G-Class Mercedes entering after 8 PM, departing 3-5 hours later. Then in September 2025, 23-year-old yard worker Darius Moratti accidentally entered the rear bay and watched two men load vacuum-sealed currency bricks into an exposed frame cavity. He said nothing for three weeks. On December 11, he walked into the DSS Detroit field office. His cooperation confirmed the schedule, identified the six-man modification crew, linked a secondary staging facility in Warren, and placed a biometric-locked drawer in the principal's private office. On June 9, the drawer was opened with a court-authorized biometric override. The encrypted drive inside contained the full supplier ledger — all 14 names, account numbers, and delivery schedules since early 2024. At Halifax, simultaneous warrants yielded 64 sealed boxes of precision actuators and gyroscope assemblies declared as industrial vibration dampening equipment — guidance components for an estimated 350 to 450 drone systems. Twelve supplier warrants are issued or pending. One supplier appears in the ledger only under a code name — no real name, no matched corporate entity — and remains unidentified. The ledger references 91 box shipments routed through Cedar since early 2024. The Halifax seizure recovered 64. Twenty-seven boxes of export-controlled drone components are unaccounted for. Koshnevis has entered no cooperation agreement. The Halifax port official who processed Harborline Maritime Solutions' reflagged manifests — Dubai declared, Bandar Abbas delivered — has not been named in any filing. That thread is cross-jurisdictional and currently leads to a blank page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This video is a dramatized documentary reconstruction. All scenes, dialogue, and character portrayals are fictional recreations produced for educational and entertainment purposes. Names, organizations, locations, and operational details have been fictionalized or composited. This content does not represent the official positions of DSS, FBI, OFAC, or any other federal agency. No classified information was used in the production of this video. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for more federal case reconstructions.