U.S. Marshals recently reported that a man with a strong resemblance to a John Ruffo was quite visibly present at a Los Angeles Dodgers game, 本垒后面四排, 8月5日, 2016.
That may seem like an innocuous sentence, but there’s obviously more to the story. 你会问,这和欺诈周有什么关系? 有什么大不了的? 约翰·鲁福是谁? Just a most wanted fugitive who’s evaded the law for almost 23 years, that’s who.
Mr. Ruffo, 事实证明, was convicted of a $350 million bank fraud scheme in the late 1990s and sentenced to 17 ½ years in prison. 他将于11月9日到联邦监狱报到, 1998年在新泽西, 但一直没出现,现在还在逃亡. He was last seen in a surveillance video from an ATM in Queens on that day.
If that part isn’t unusual enough, the actual fraud Mr. 鲁福犯下的罪行可能更加离奇. In 1993, he and a partner devised a scam where they told banks they were leading an international research program on a tobacco alternative for Philip Morris that required the purchase of hundreds of computers and the hiring of staff at five offshore locations. Even though neither of the men worked for Philip Morris at the time, 他们说服了7家国内外银行, 用一个假的项目名, 公司盖章和行政签字, 借给他们三亿五千万美元.
该计划最终于1996年被揭露. Ruffo was indicted on 160 counts of bank fraud and money laundering. 后来他失踪了, one FBI agent believed he may have socked away more than $8 million.
所以在欺诈周上记住这一点, even the most wanted fraudsters need to get out and see a baseball game occasionally. But here’s a tip: don’t sit right behind home plate.
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This article is part of series highlighting fraud from the professional sporting world in support of the Association of Certified 欺诈 Examiner’s (ACFE) annual 国际 欺诈 Awareness Week. We invite you to read our other articles at the links below.
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