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Published
on Thursday, August 8,
2024
By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire
services
A Costa Rican male surnamed Campos-Chanto (43) was sentenced to 97 months (about 8 years) in prison for his role in laundering over $2 million in proceeds of a number of wire fraud schemes, United States Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey, Campos entered illegally in the United States and was living in the city of Trenton. He previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Judge Quraishi imposed sentence in Trenton federal court. Documents filed in the case indicate that between August 2019 and October 2021, Chanto participated in a multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy operating out of Costa Rica that targeted elderly victims in the U.S. Conspirators in Costa Rica called senior citizens in the U.S. over the phone and induced them to mail or wire money to Chanto by claiming that the victims needed to pay off taxes and fees on lottery winnings or taxes and penalties to the U.S. government.
In total, Chanto
received more than $2 million from
elderly victims who had been defrauded
by Chanto’s co-conspirators.
Chanto then wired
the majority of the funds to his
co-conspirators in Costa Rica and
retained approximately $400,000 for
himself as payment for his money
laundering services.
In addition to the
prison term, Judge Quraishi sentenced
Chanto to three years of supervised
release and ordered him to pay
restitution of $2.07 million.
U.S. Attorney
Sellinger credited special agents of the
FBI, Newark Division, Trenton Resident
Agency, under the direction of Special
Agent in Charge James E. Dennehy in
Newark, and special agents of the FBI,
Cleveland Division, Youngstown Resident
Agency, under the direction of Special
Agent in Charge Gregory D. Nelsen, led
the investigation.
The government was
represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys
Alexander E. Ramey and Ashley Super
Pitts of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s
Criminal Division in Trenton.
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