After pleading not guilty in March to all four federal counts against him in an illicit catalytic converter sales scheme, a plea agreement hearing is now set in the case of Theodore Nicholas Papouloglou.

The hearing is set for noon Tuesday in Richmond before District Judge David J. Novak.

There were no further documents filed this morning in the federal court database that give details on the hearing or what he will plead to.

He had originally requested a jury trial and waived his right to a formal arraignment.

A true bill of indictment charges Papouloglou in counts one and two with evasion of income tax assessments; in count three conspiracy to transfer, receive, conceal and sell stolen goods; and in count four operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

The indictment says the Roanoke Rapids man in November of 2020 incorporated DG Auto South LLC in Emporia as a scrap metal business which routinely purchased and sold automotive parts, including catalytic converters. It also operated as a money transmission business in connection with the purchase and sale of catalytic converters.

In November of 2019 Papouloglou incorporated Strategic Converter & Cores, a limited liability company registered to his mother's address in Gaston, a company the indictment refers to as an alter ego of the Virginia business.