2023-08-21 17:53:44
A false missionary accused of fraud is in the sights of the authorities in an investigation, accused of having embezzled a total of almost R$ 150 million in offers.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US body equivalent to the Federal Revenue Service in Brazil, is looking for a man accused of wire fraud and laundering millions of dollars in donations from various organizations thought to be donating funds to a Christian ministry in China. .
Jason Gerald Shenk, 45, is considered a fugitive by the IRS on charges of embezzling more than $30 million in donations to various shell corporations.
From April 2010 to July 2019, Shenk reportedly retrieved donations from various charities and religious donors, most of whom were Amish and Mennonites headquartered in North Carolina and Ohio.
According to the indictment, Shenk allegedly impersonated a Christian missionary and solicited donations, promising that he would produce and distribute Christian literature and Bibles in regions of China.
In addition to individual donations, one organization and its donors donated $22 million, and another charity and its donors provided $10 million for the fake missionary scheme.
According to information from the portal The Christian Postthe IRS said investigations found that rather than collecting the funds for the claimed mission, Shenk was using the donation money for his own personal financial gain and various other purposes.
These alternative uses included paying around $1 million to a sports betting site, buying around $850,000 of stock in a private nuclear power company, and about $4 million in purchases of around 16 insurance policies. life in the names of different people.
The fake missionary also bought about $1 million worth of diamonds, gold and precious metals, and obtained shares in companies in the US and abroad, totaling more than $188,000.
From what has been discovered so far, he also made payments of $7 million to the company that manages his family’s farm, made purchases using at least 10 personal credit cards with expenses totaling more than $820,000, and purchased $ 320,000 in real estate equity in Santiago, Chile.
Shenk also allegedly used seven other shell companies with bank accounts in the United States, Singapore and China to fulfill his financial scheme.
A federal indictment in court has already been initiated, but is not yet complete. The action may result in lawsuits against the false missionary for electronic fraud, various forms of money laundering and attempts to omit foreign bank account statements, resulting in a penalty that can exceed 20 years in prison and the loss of assets accumulated with the bid diversion fraud.
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