U.S. Court Sentences Indian-Origin Man for Defrauding Elderly in Scam Operation
Pranav Patel of New Jersey was found guilty of conspiring to commit money laundering and received a sentence of six years and three months in federal prison.
According to the Justice Department, a man of Indian descent was sentenced to more than six years in prison in San Francisco, California, for his role in a fraud scheme that involved the laundering of more than a million dollars from elderly people.
New Jersey resident Pranav Patel, 33, laundered $1.7 million as part of the fraud conspiracy between October and December 2023 while acting as a “money mule.”
U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced him to six years and three months in federal prison on Wednesday for conspiracy to commit money laundering, after he entered a guilty plea in December of last year.
Additionally, according to the Justice Department, the judge ordered the seizure of $1.7 million.
The scheme’s conspirators pretended to be government agents, including U.S. Treasury Department officers, and made calls from call centres overseas.
In several cases, they informed victims that they had pending arrest warrants and that they would have to pay to have them cleared. At other times, the conspirators instructed victims to give the officers their cash and gold so that it might be kept safe.
Patel travelled from New Jersey to collect gold and cash from elderly people in Florida and other East Coast states.
One victim, from whom Patel received fraud proceeds, told the court at the sentencing hearing that he was dependent on Social Security benefits for all of his living expenses, had to sell his home, and could not afford his mortgage payments as a result of the scam.
Patel went to a house in December 2023 to get what he thought was a gold box. He picked up the package, nevertheless, without realising he was being watched by the police, and was taken into custody right away.
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