Dhruv Rajeshbhai Mangukiya, a 21-year-old Indian student in the US has been sentenced to 97 months in prison along with a payment of $2,515,780 in restitution for conspiracy to commit money laundering, where he targeted elderly people and forced them to send gold, cash to him and his Indian co-conspirator through an elaborate scam. Co-conspirator Kishan Rajeshkumar Patel was sentenced to 63 months in jail in June. Both pleaded guilty to the fraud. Mangukiya and Patel identified elderly individuals whom they contacted by phone, claiming to be officials from the government. They told the victims that they would need to make a deposit of cash, gold or other such items to resolve an investigation or prevent financial loss. A courier would coordinate the pickup of the deposits either from th

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