www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2017/08/facebook-google-lose-123m-to-swindler.html?m=0The Court of Appeal of Lithuania has decided
to extradite to the United States a Lithuanian
scam artist identified as Evaldas
Rimasauskas, who conned $123 million out of
FaceBook and Google by sending fake emails.
“Assumption that the damage was done to the
companies registered in the United States
became the ground for the extradition of
Rimasauskas,” the court said in a press
release on Friday.
The decision to extradite the scammer was
irrevocable, the court said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern
District of New York accused Rimasauskas of
wire transfer fraud, aggravated identity theft
and money laundering, news agency Elta
reported.
Evaldas Rimasauskas, right, during
extradition proceedings in Lithuania
It is alleged that Rimasauskas took part in the
scam using e-mail correspondence and posed
as an Asian computer hardware
manufacturer to persuade Google and
FaceBook to accept fraudulent invoices and
transfer funds to the company established
under the same name in Latvia.
The funds were transferred to the latter
company’s accounts in banks in Cyprus and
Latvia.
The court underlined it has not been
assessing the circumstances of the crime and
the proof of guilt as it “should trust the
information provided by the judicial
authority of the country which applied for the
extradition.”
Rimasauskas is suspected to have conned 23
million dollars from Google and 100 million
dollars from FaceBook.
He was detained in Lithuania on March 16.
On April 18, the Prosecutor General’s Office of
Lithuania received the U.S. Justice
Department’s request to extradite the
suspect.
Rimasauskas has denied the charges.
Meanwhile, the attorney of Rimasauskas
claimed that the investigation of the
suspected crime must take place in Lithuania
as the allegedly criminal actions were carried
out within the country, local media reported.
Lithuania has a bilateral extradition
agreement with the United States and this
case “meets all the criteria”, the chairman of
the court underlined.

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