{"id":52336,"date":"2023-02-27T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T03:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52336"},"modified":"2023-02-27T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T03:31:26","slug":"man-sentenced-to-more-than-11-years-for-money-laundering-money-taken-from-fraud-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52336","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Money Laundering Money Taken from Fraud Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38520 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Telemarketing_Fraud_and_Lawsuits_medium-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Telemarketing_Fraud_and_Lawsuits_medium-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Telemarketing_Fraud_and_Lawsuits_medium-95x65.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Telemarketing_Fraud_and_Lawsuits_medium.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Carson man who was a central figure in an international fraud and money-laundering network that targeted $25 million through various frauds \u2013 including romance scams and elder fraud \u2013 was sentenced 11 years and three months in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Valentine Iro, 34, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/massive-international-fraud-and-money-laundering-conspiracy-detailed-federal-grand-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">lead defendant<\/a>\u00a0in a 252-count federal grand jury indictment that charged 80 individuals, was sentenced by United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner. Judge Klausner also ordered Iro to pay $1,397,553 in restitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iro pleaded guilty in October 2020 to one count of conspiracy to engage in money laundering. He has been in federal custody since August 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3918 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From October 2014 to August 2019, Iro helped lead a massive international criminal network that conspired to defraud individuals and companies worldwide and then launder more than $25 million in intended ill-gotten gains. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Known globally to fraudsters and their middlemen, Iro communicated primarily through encrypted messaging applications and phone calls. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">He worked to connect the fraudsters, who were committing various online scams, with money movers and bank accounts that could be used to receive and launder money from victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51790 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3125467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"america, the dollar, president\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3125467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3125467-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3125467-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3125467.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Iro knew that the scams included business email compromise (BEC) fraud, romance scams, and other fraud schemes. A native of Nigeria, Iro at times used code words and Nigerian pidgin \u2013 an English-based dialect used across that nation \u2013 to avoid detection by law enforcement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">The fraudsters perpetrating these criminal activities were largely located outside the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As part of the scheme, Iro negotiated his \u201ccut\u201d of the illegal proceeds he would keep for himself to organize the receipt and laundering of funds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">He then would select or find a bank account or assist in opening bank accounts to be used to receive victims\u2019 money. Iro collected bank account information for banks in the Los Angeles area and other cities and nations, often in preparation for requests to come from co-conspirators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51222 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1yeql23dvji-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"brown wooden chairs inside room\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1yeql23dvji-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1yeql23dvji-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1yeql23dvji-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1yeql23dvji.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>For romance scams and elder fraud, Iro sometimes used bank accounts under his personal control. For BEC frauds, if a bank account with a specific business name was required to trick a business-victim into making a payment, Iro often coordinated with \u201cmoney movers\u201d to open accounts that could receive funds obtained, according to court documents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">In addition to making the fake business name mirror the name of a legitimate company, members of the conspiracy routinely filed fictitious business name statements with the Los Angeles County Registrar\/Recorder\u2019s Office that were presented to banks when the fraudulent accounts were opened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once a victim deposited funds into a bank account or a money service account, Iro coordinated with others to further launder the funds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Members of the conspiracy sometimes wired funds to other bank accounts under their control; in other cases, they simply withdrew funds as cash or negotiable instruments such as cashier\u2019s checks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When stolen funds were withdrawn as cash, the conspirators frequently used illicit money exchangers to move funds overseas, generally avoiding transferring the funds directly through banking institutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">To do this, Iro coordinated the transfer of a victim\u2019s funds from a fraudulent bank account they controlled to U.S. bank accounts belonging to illicit money exchangers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Those money exchangers, in turn, used a Nigerian banking application to transfer other funds in naira (\u20a6), the currency of Nigeria, from Nigerian bank accounts they controlled to the Nigerian bank accounts specified by Iro. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">This method transferred millions of dollars to Nigerian co-conspirators without directly transferring funds overseas.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDefendant Iro masterminded this international money laundering scheme for years and, in the process, stole money and identities from hundreds of victims, including some who were led to believe they were in a romantic relationship only to learn they were being scammed,\u201d said Donald Alway, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI&#8217;s Los Angeles Field Office. \u201cAs we continue to investigate this case and look for fugitives, we urge Americans to learn how to identify BEC, romance, and other schemes, which have increased dramatically in recent years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Federal prosecutors have secured 21 convictions in this case so far. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Additional defendants have been arrested in Nigeria, and others are at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">The FBI Cyber Task Force led this investigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7753387482MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Sue J. 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