Polish conman arrested in Katowice
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
12.06.2015 13:21
The confidence artist had managed to swindle USD 7 million from a US company, prosecutors say.
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The 48-year-old resident of Jastrzębie Zdrój in Silesia could face up to ten years in jail if found guilty.
The man allegedly received the money after someone called a US firm pretending to be the companies’ CEO and demanding that workers transfer funds to a foreign account.
The investigation into international money laundering was conducted by Silesian police officers from the economic crime section.
They have released a possible scenario as to how the man was able to con this amount of money. In the autumn of last year a man called a company in the US and pretended to be the Chief Executive. He then ordered the money transferred to two entities.
In this way, on two accounts owned by the Pole received transfers to the tune of USD 3,298,000 and USD 3,697,000.
The man allegedly exchanged some of this money to other currencies. He sent around a million euros to Hong Kong, and paid himself some PLN 620,000 and EUR 1,000 in cash, the investigators claim.
He is being charged with money laundering. (rg)
Source: TVP Info