GLEN ELLYN, Ill. — Federal charges have been filed against a suburban woman accused of conducting a $900,000 merchandise fraud scheme in Chicagoland.

A recently unsealed federal indictment charges 40-year-old Iryna Boguslavska, a Glen Ellyn resident, with one count of wire fraud in connection with the alleged fraud scheme.

According to prosecutors, Boguslavska allegedly conducted the scheme over a three-year period, between October 2020 and October 2023, by purchasing high-end clothing online and later returning the items in person multiple times, sometimes even returning cheaper alternatives in place of the more costly merchandise.

In addition to repeatedly returning the items, prosecutors say Boguslavska also allegedly falsely claimed that some items she purchased online never arrived

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