An Indian-American has been sentenced to a few years of imprisonment withinside the US for laundering coins proceeds from a telemarketing scheme that defrauded senior citizens.
Hirenkumar P Chaudhari, 29, of Illinois pleaded responsible ultimate 12 months to a federal cash laundering charge, stated John R Lausch, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, as he introduced the sentencing on Thursday.
Hirenkumar P Chaudhri performed a pivotal position in a telemarketing scheme with the aid of using laundering cash acquired immediately from aged sufferers, he stated.
According to federal prosecutors, Hirenkumar P Chaudhari used a phony Indian passport, fake name, and fake cope with to open a couple of financial institution money owed withinside the US to acquire cash from sufferers of the telemarketing scheme.
The rip-off concerned telecellsmartphone calls from human beings falsely claiming to be related with, amongst different agencies, the Social Security Administration and US Department of Justice, pointing out that a victim’s identification have been stolen and that it turned into vital to switch cash to diverse financial institution money owed, along with the money owed opened with the aid of using Chaudhari.
“One of the sufferers turned into a retired nurse from Massachusetts who transferred a complete of extra than USD 900,000 from her financial institution and retirement money owed to money owed managed with the aid of using Hirenkumar P Chaudhari or others,” the Department of Justice stated.
“On April 19, 2018 – at some point after Hirenkumar P Chaudhari opened an account and acquired a USD 7,000 switch from the Massachusetts victim – Chaudhari entered a financial institution department in Chicago and withdrew USD 6,500. Hirenkumar P Chaudhari engaged on this economic transaction understanding that the cash represented proceeds of illegal activity,” it stated.