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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 57-year-old antheral residing successful Fresno had a national expansive assemblage instrumentality a six-count indictment against him successful February, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced the indictment against Sergio Zacarias Lopez, who is simply a Mexican citizen. The DOJ says they are charging him with slope fraud, aggravated individuality theft and amerciable re-entry aft being removed from the country.
The DOJ stated that the indictment was unsealed pursuing his apprehension connected Thursday. According to tribunal documents, betwixt January 2016 and June 2023, Zacarias Lopez abused his relation arsenic the accounting supervisor and controller to defraud a family-owned effect wholesaler successful Fresno.
The DOJ says Zacarias Lopez allegedly wrote aggregate institution checks made payable to "cash" and past deposited them into his idiosyncratic slope relationship done section ATMs.
Beckwith says helium is accused of signing the fraudulent checks utilizing the signatures of different employees with signatory authority, including 1 of the founders of the company.
Zacarias Lopez is accused of embezzling much than $1 cardinal earlier helium was yet detected by 1 of the banks and terminated by the company.
Zacarias Lopez secured his accounting presumption by stealing a valid societal information fig and utilizing it alongside falsified employment documents to fell his deficiency of ineligible status.
According to the DOJ, Zacarias Lopez was antecedently removed from the U.S. successful 2000 and has not been allowed to return.
The DOJ says if convicted of slope fraud, helium faces a maximum punishment of 30 years successful situation and a $1 million fine. If convicted of aggravated individuality theft oregon amerciable re-entry, helium faces a punishment of 2 years successful prison, according to the DOJ.
