A Mexican couple has admitted to fraudulently promoting Southern California houses they didn’t personal and laundering roughly $1 million in proceeds.
In keeping with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of California, Victor Hugo Villalobos Almazan and his spouse, Nayeli Noemi Montoya Rodriguez, Mexican nationals who entered the U.S. on vacationer visas, pleaded responsible to financial institution fraud fees.
“In keeping with the plea settlement, conspirators posed as legit property homeowners and used fraudulent paperwork to promote actual property they didn’t personal to unsuspecting patrons.
To hold out the scheme, co-conspirators created electronic mail addresses carefully resembling these of the true homeowners to market the properties completely by electronic mail, avoiding any in-person conferences and concealing their identities.
They then supplied cast property switch paperwork that falsely appeared to bear the precise proprietor’s signature.”
Villalobos and Montoya admitted to opening financial institution accounts underneath enterprise names much like the legit homeowners’ to obtain the illicit funds earlier than wiring them abroad.
They focused two houses in San Diego, pocketing $400,748 and $561,463 respectively.
Montoya wired practically all proceeds from the primary sale to Mexico in April 2023, whereas Villalobos moved the second batch to accounts in Mexico and Jordan or took it in money.
The defendants are scheduled to be sentenced on September 4, 2026, earlier than U.S. District Decide Dana M. Sabraw.
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