A man and a woman from San Antonio are among seven people charged in a conspiracy to claim $111 million in hundreds of fraudulent tax refunds by using the stolen identities of accountants and taxpayers, federal officials said.
Named in a federal indictment were Meghan Inyang and Dillon Anozie of San Antonio. Also indicted by a federal grand jury in Austin were Abraham Yusuff and Christopher Eduardo, both of Round Rock, Babajide Ogunbanjo, of Austin, Aydin Mammadov, of Houston, and Christian Mathurin, of Nashville, Tenn.
The indictment also charges that Yusuff, Inyang, Eduardo, Anozie, Ogunbanjo, and Mammadov obtained the prepaid debit cards that were to be used to receive the fraudulent refunds and that once the refunds were deposited onto the prepaid debit cards, they laundered the funds by purchasing money orders from local stores in amounts low enough to avoid reporting thresholds.
If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the mail and wire fraud and the conspiracy of said fraud, 20 years for money laundering, 10 years for access device fraud, and a mandatory sentence of two years for aggravated identity theft.
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