A Florida federal judge on Monday handed down an 8½-year sentence to a man whom prosecutors called a "key orchestrator" of a scheme that used call centers in Peru to steal about $9 million from recent Spanish-speaking immigrants in the U.S. with deportation threats.
A Florida federal judge on Monday handed down an 8½-year sentence to a man whom prosecutors called a "key orchestrator" of a scheme that used call centers in Peru to steal about $9 million from recent Spanish-speaking immigrants in the U.S. with deportation threats.
Published: 10 July 2021 10 July 2021
Miami, Florida - A Peruvian national has been sentenced to 90 months in prison for operating a series of call centers in Peru that defrauded Spanish-speaking U.S. residents by falsely threatening them with arrest, deportation and other legal consequences. In the same case, two additional Peruvian co-conspirators pleaded guilty and two others were extradited to the Southern District of Florida to face prosecution for their roles in the scheme.
According to court documents, Omar Cuzcano Marroquin, 32, of Lima, Peru, was sentenced for conspiring to commit mail fraud and wire fraud through a series of Peruvian call centers that used false statements and threats to obtain money from Spanish-speaking individuals across the United States. Cuzcano and others falsely told victims that they were required to accept and pay for English-language courses and other educational products and that failure to do so placed them in legal jeopardy.
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