1 month ago
4
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Charges person been filed against a antheral from Tennessee and different from Germany for a strategy to defraud Fresno County, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The DOJ says 52-year-old Jafaar September Nyangoro, of Franklin, Tennessee and 45-year-old Peter Bah Acha of Berlin, Germany, were charged connected Thursday with conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and ligament fraud related to a strategy to defraud Fresno County.
Per tribunal documents, earlier Sept. 14, 2020, Nyangoro, Acha and others secretly gained power of an email relationship utilized by the concern manager of a nonprofit successful Fresno and fraudulently represented to the County of Fresno that the nonprofit's slope relationship accusation had changed, directing payments to a caller relationship Nyangoro opened.
The DOJ reports this was done to taxable fraudulent invoices to the region to person payments done Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions.
After the slope relationship accusation was updated, the DOJ says the region initiated respective ACH transfers of much than $1.5 cardinal to Nyangoro's slope relationship alternatively of the nonprofit's. At times, Nyangoro, Acha and others communicated done assorted means, including WhatsApp.
According to the DOJ, connected Oct. 16, 2020, and aft Regions Bank reversed immoderate of the ACH transfers for suspected fraud, Nyangioro sent a WhatsApp connection that read, "We’re successful heavy s***. The past 3 transactions from the County of Fresno person been reversed. Please telephone maine ASAP!”
Nyangoro was ordered detained by a magistrate justice successful Nashville connected Wednesday, according to national officials, and helium is acceptable to marque an quality successful Fresno astatine a aboriginal date.
If convicted, Nyangoro and Acha look up to 20 years successful situation and a good of up to $250,000 for each number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and ligament fraud.
