Russian, who served in the USA for major fraud, was deported to his homeland

US Immigration and Customs Police have deported a Russian citizen accused of fraud using electronic communications, writes Fox News... ICE began expulsion proceedings back in February.

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On Thursday, December 3, immigration authorities deported a Russian citizen convicted of participating in a $ 4,5 million fraudulent scheme and wanted in his country for attempted murder.

Stanislav Eduardovich Lissitzky, 32, was handed over to the Russian authorities in Moscow, accompanied by officers from the ICE Law Enforcement Operation.

Lissitzky, wanted in Russia on multiple charges including attempted murder, expired his nonimmigrant visa in 2017, according to a press release from the US Immigration and Customs Administration.

The Russian was convicted in the Southern District of New York in 2019 for conspiring to commit electronic fraud as part of a scheme that defrauded people worth more than $ 4,5 million by selling cars online.

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After serving his prison term, federal immigration authorities took Lissitzky into custody and began expulsion proceedings earlier this year.

No further details were provided.

Recall that at the end of July 2018 in the USA 25 people were detained and accused of major fraud on car sales. There were several Russians among them. They are Maxim Suverin, Nikolai Tupikin, Alexey Livadny and Stanislav Lissitsky.

The prosecutor's office of the Southern District of New York said that the criminal group also included five citizens of Georgia, four immigrants from Azerbaijan, three from Kazakhstan, two from Latvia, two more from Ukraine. In addition, among the defendants are citizens of the United States and Turkey.

From November 2016 to July 2018, the defendants implemented a large-scale fraudulent scheme. They posed as legal car dealers, tricked the victims into paying for the cars they bought, took money out of banks all over the country, trying to avoid control, and spent the money outside the United States.

First, the conspirators masqueraded as car dealers and collectors and claimed to sell classic cars on well-known online auctions and shopping sites. After the victims and conspirators had agreed on a price, including initial payments and shipping costs, the victims were sent to the alleged car transport companies. These companies were supposedly supposed to accept payments and transport the purchased cars.

Companies were actually “covers” of corporations that fraudsters created to convince the victim. Corporate accounts were created by them and controlled, waiting for the transfer of funds from the victim. After that, the defendants were sent to the banks to launder the money received, often on the same day the payment was received. The defendants collected money from different branches of the bank after several payments on the same day, limiting each amount to a number that - as they themselves believed - the bank would not notice or report fraud to the authorities.

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Then the conspirators sent funds outside the United States to the countries of Eastern Europe, where most of the accused come from. The victims never received a product that they thought they bought, and many of them were unable to return the money or were forced to pay loans for cars that were never really sold.

Lissitzky, who confessed to conspiracy to commit fraud, was sentenced to 1,5 years in prison in the United States and served that term, after which he was deported to his homeland.

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