Occupation Business executive | Name Moshe Begim | |
Full Name Moshe Yair Begim Born 1962 (age 52–53) Israel Known for President, AVC Corporation | ||
Moshe Begim (born 1962) is an American business executive and former Israeli Air Force captain, based in California. He is known for his business relationship as the president of AVC Corporation and Life Mel Honey.
Career
Begim is president of AVC Corporation, a California-based company that designs and manufactures custom plastic and paper packaging for retail products. Its services include custom packaging, media replication, graphic design and pre-press. AVC Corporation was founded in 1955, is based in Rancho Dominguez, California, and has a facility in China.
Begim and Guy Marom, AVC co-president, were arrested in 1988 and charged with money laundering. A total of thirteen suspects were arrested and charged. Begin maintained his innocence of the charges, stating that he was told that the money was for the Mossad, the intelligence agency for Israel, to fund anti-Communist guerrillas operating in Central America. He was found guilty after a trial in 1989.
Begim is also involved with Life Mel Honey, a brand of honey produced by Zuf Globus Laboratories Ltd. The honey is derived from bees that are fed a diet of herbs such as Siberian ginseng, Echinacea and Uncaria tomentosa. He is responsible for the distribution of the product in the United States along with partner Yaron Shmueli. He distributes the product through his company New Horizon and is the exclusive distributor of the product in the U.S.