A Georgia man was sentenced to a few years in jail after illegally acquiring a coronavirus reduction mortgage and utilizing greater than $57,000 of the cash to purchase a collectible Pokémon card, authorities mentioned on Monday.
Vinath Oudomsine of Dublin, Georgia, agreed to forfeit the expensive buying and selling card, which featured the Pokémon character Charizard, as a part of a plea settlement, mentioned David Estes, the performing US lawyer David Estes of the southern district of Georgia, in a information launch.
Oudomsine, 31, pleaded responsible in October to a single depend of wire fraud. Prosecutors mentioned in a authorized submitting that he submitted false info to the US Small Enterprise Administration final 12 months when making use of for a Covid-19 reduction mortgage for an “leisure providers” enterprise he claimed to personal.
They mentioned he lied about how many individuals he employed in addition to his enterprise’ annual revenues.
Oudomsine obtained $85,000 from the mortgage program, prosecutors mentioned, and used it to purchase the buying and selling card for $57,789.