YOUNGSTOWN Two Kent State University students are in the Mahoning County Jail, charged in a federal cyberfraud investigation.

Touhedul Tuhin, 25, and Iftekhar Latif Nieon, 23, were arrested Tuesday by the FBI on a criminal complaint from the Western District of New York.

The two men, who resided in Kent, are accused of acting as “money mules” as part of a scheme that defrauded elderly victims of more than $100,000. They face charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

According to court documents, the alleged scheme involved scammers impersonating government agents or tech support representatives to trick victims into withdrawing large sums of cash. Tuhin and Nieon are accused of being the couriers who collected

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