NEW BERLIN, Wis. (WFRV) – A 21-year-old man from India who was in Canada on a student visa and the United States on a visitor’s visa was indicted for allegedly conspiring to commit money laundering in several states, including Wisconsin.
Richard G. Frohling, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Roshan Shah was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday.
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The indictment and criminal complaint allege that Shah traveled to multiple states to pick up cash and gold from multiple fraud victims, transferring earnings to other members of this conspiracy.
Shah was subsequently arrested after he allegedly tried to pick up gold from more fraud victims in New Berlin, Wisconsin.
According to the release, others involved in the conspiracy posed as law enforcement to convince victims that they had fallen for a massive scheme and turn their assets to gold, which would be picked up and taken to Washington, D.C. for ‘safe-keeping.’
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The victims had reportedly given over $500,000 in gold to the couriers, who they believed were working with the federal government.
Officials with the New Berlin Police Department and Homeland Security investigated the case.
