A surprisingly multinational group of 25 people representing half of the former Soviet republics is brought to justice in New York for fraud and money laundering. All are accused of significant fraud with the sale of cars.
As soon as the money has arrived at the account of this company, the bank branch crooks and amounts less than 10 thousand dollars so that the bank does not report, as it should, on these transactions to the Ministry of Finance. The money was then transferred to the countries of Eastern Europe.
Victims did not receive either car or money purchased and some have to pay loans from the bank for their acquisition, writes the District Attorney of New York South District. The purpose of the fraud to each of the accused theoretically threatens up to 30 years in prison and for conspiracy to launder money up to 20 years.
They will also be responsible for compensation, the size of which will establish the court.
Pier Igor Stasovsky from Brooklyn, 29-year-old Kirill Dedusev and four other Los Angeles residents: Stanislav Lisitsky, 30, Giedrius Girnius, Alexei Livadny, 39, Nikolai Tupikin, 32, and two Muscovites: 29-year-old Mikhail Morozov and Alexander Starikov, 34 years old
American Michelle Levinsky, 23, and Turk Melvut Yazis, 36, stand out. Both live in Brooklyn.
The oldest of the accused, 64-year-old Ketevan Sepiashvili, from Georgia, was also arrested. In total, 11 members of the group lived in Brooklyn.
Alvin Bagir-Pur, a 24-year-old Azerbaijani, was arrested in Miami. Another 64-year-old Georgian, Tengiz Hukiashvili, is in the bullpen in Florida for another case. Latvian Matisse Puke, 31, and his companion Carlos Vitols, 29, are already in the local police business in Michigan. The Southern District New York District Attorney's Office will ask other states' courts to extradite all four.
Several members of the group are on the run and appear on the wanted list. It is Dedusev, Georgian Roman Elyosashvili, 44, Elena Khudaibergenova, 48, Kazakhstan, Lisitsky, Livadny, Morozov, Starikov and Tupikin