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Defendant Earned Millions of Dollars but Did Not File Tax Returns or Pay Tax An Ohio man pleaded guilty today to tax evasion, operating an illegal gambling business and two counts of money laundering associated with his ownership and operation of illegal gambling businesses in Northeast Ohio. According to court documents and statements made in [...]
A Florida resident and dual citizen of the United States and Turkey was sentenced yesterday to six years and six months in prison for running an enormous operation over many years to traffic in fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco networking equipment. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Onur Aksoy, 40, of Miami, agreed to pay [...]
A Ukrainian national was sentenced today to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay over $16 million in restitution for his role in conducting over 2,500 ransomware attacks and demanding over $700 million in ransom payments. “As this sentencing shows, the Justice Department is working with our international partners and using [...]
A federal jury in New Haven, Connecticut, convicted a Nigerian national today for operating a business email compromise scheme out of multiple countries, including the United States. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Okechuckwu Valentine Osuji, 39, and his co-conspirators targeted specific individuals and businesses by masquerading as trustworthy entities in electronic [...]
Man Known as “Bitcoin Jesus” Evaded Nearly $50M in Taxes An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoins, with mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Ver was arrested this weekend in Spain based on the U.S. criminal charges. The United States will seek Ver’s extradition to stand [...]
An indictment was unsealed today in the Central District of California charging two California men with conspiring to defraud investors in a multi-year scheme involving the acquisition and sale of Airborne Wireless Network securities (stock ticker ABWN). According to court documents, Kalistratos “Kelly” Kabilafkas, 48, of Moorpark, and Jack E. Daniels, 74, of Agoura Hills, [...]
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) conducted an investigation in respect of Anglorand Islamic Investments (Pty) Ltd (Anglorand Islamic) and Mr Shoayb Joosub. The investigation covered the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2015 (the investigation period). During the investigation period, Mr Shoayb Joosub (Joosub), through Anglorand Islamic, rendered financial services to approximately 270 …
The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement worth over $16 million with Floyd Calhoun Dent, III arising from a health care fraud judgment against Dent as well as fraudulent transfer claims against Dent, certain members of his family, his family trust and several corporations owned or controlled by Dent that received millions [...]
WASHINGTON – Sixteen individuals were charged in connection with a sprawling “grandparent scam” to defraud elderly Americans out of millions of dollars, the Justice Department announced today during a virtual announcement. Eleven men from the Dominican Republic are charged in a 19-count indictment with mail and wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to [...]
GAUTENG – Vamisile Mthimkhulu (39), was arrested on Wednesday, 24 April 2024, at the OR Tambo International Airport when a warrant for contempt of court was executed after she failed to attend a court appearance for charges of home loan fraud committed against First National Bank in 2017. Mthimkhulu had just returned from the USA [...]
EASTERN CAPE – Luyanda Brian Vava (34), the company director and his business entity appeared before East London Magistrate’s court on 29 April 2024 for allegations of fraud, forgery and uttering. Vava is the sole director of Widelink Technologies Pty Ltd company. He was arrested by the East London Serious Corruption Investigation of the Hawks [...]
NORTH WEST - Bethune Mzimba (39) appeared in the Potchefstroom Magistrates' Court on Monday, 29 April 2024, facing charges of fraud and extortion. It is alleged that in January 2024, the complainant received a call from a male person who claimed to be calling from JB Marks Local Municipality Electricity Department. The complainant was told [...]
NORTH WEST - Gaorutwe Rothwell Motingwe (40), the director of Gaomoti Enterprise Trading, appeared in the Lichtenburg Magistrate's Court on Friday, 26 April 2024, facing charges of fraud. Motingwe handed himself over to the police earlier on Friday morning and was charged with fraud following an investigation by the Hawks' Serious Commercial Crime Investigation in [...]
GAUTENG – Nicolene Trytsman (39), has been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment by the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Monday, 08 April 2024, for charges of fraud and money laundering in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime (POCA) Act. The conviction originates from the Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation that linked her [...]
WESTERN CAPE - The Hawks' Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team based in George have on 26 April 2024 arrested a 43-year-old Lungiswa Tania Klaas on a warrant of arrest. She appeared before the Plettenberg Bay Magistrates' Court on the same day on charges of fraud. Klaas was granted R5000.00 bail and the matter is postponed [...]
MPUMALANGA- Nine accused, Bernarto Mashava (22), Oshvaldo Mashayela (25), Manual Mathonzi (22),Lourense Zitha (30), Janeoro Mbalane (41), Erick Thulani Phiri (32), Samuel Mashaba (28), Lourence Mbiza (45) and Wandile Chongo (24) were remanded in custody by the Louw`s Creek periodical court on Thursday, 25 April 2024, after they were arrested by the Hawks Nelspruit based [...]
A superseding indictment was returned yesterday by a federal grand jury in Denver charging four people with conspiring with Larry Conner and Timothy McPhee to defraud the IRS. Connor and McPhee had previously been indicted for conspiring to defraud the IRS related to the same scheme in September 2023. According to the superseding indictment, from [...]
An Illinois man pleaded guilty today in connection with a years-long fraud conspiracy to roll back the odometer readings on hundreds of used cars. According to court documents, Laith Ghzo, 37, of Oak Lawn, admitted that he purchased high-mileage vehicles at auto auctions and caused the odometers of those vehicles to be rolled back to [...]
EASTERN CAPE – The East London based Serious Commercial Crimes Investigation of the Hawks in corporation with South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) ensured Alicia Nontsapho Mnqwazi (65), who is the sole director of Mwendane Skills Providers CC, appeared before East London Magistrates' Court on 24 April 2024, for allegations of [...]
NORTH WEST - The former Municipal Manager at the Ditsobotla Local Municipality in Lichtenburg, Tsietsi Isaac Shema (53) and his co-accused, who was the project manager at the same Municipality, Richard Thamsanqa Mtshali (40), appeared before the Lichtenburg Magistrates' Court on Thursday, 25 April 2024, facing charges of fraud and contravention of Municipal Finance Management [...]