The owner of Leyla Mediterranean Kurdish restaurant in Ohio, is being detained in a county jail.
An Ohio Kurdish restaurant owner and chef was charged with conspiring to smuggle three undocumented immigrants from Mexico to Cincinnati.
Comert Kurdistan, 43, aka Comert Aldic, of Newtown, owns Leyla Mediterranean restaurant in Anderson Towne Center. He, 26-year-old Ismail Altundag and 35-year-old Emma Brown, aka Emma Nur, were charged with conspiracy and aiding and abetting to smuggle undocumented immigrants into the U.S.Kurdistan, Altundag and Brown are originally from Turkey, as are the three undocumented immigrants, according to the United States Attorney's Office.
The U.S. Attorney's Office didn't disclose the motive for the alleged conspiracy or allege a connection to Kurdistan's restaurant. A woman who identified herself as Emma Brown said she managed the restaurant. She claimed the alleged undocumented immigrants had not worked there.According to Leyla Mediterranean's website, Kurdistan moved to the U.S. in 2011.
In 2015, a restaurant review in Cincinnati Magazine called Kurdistan"an eggplant whisperer" for his ability to create memorable dishes with the fruit.
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