COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus man has been arrested and indicted on federal money laundering charges after allegedly receiving more than $1 million through a business email compromise scheme targeting a health-care provider’s pandemic equipment contract, federal officials announced Friday.
Benjamin O. Alexander, 42, was charged with 29 counts of money laundering by a federal grand jury. The indictment accuses Alexander of funneling proceeds from a 2020 scam in which employees of a health-care provider were tricked into wiring money to a fraudulent bank account.
According to court documents, in June 2020, scammers impersonated a legitimate supplier of personal protective equipment (PPE) and instructed the health-care provider to reroute payments to a new account. That account, prosecutors say, belonged to a company controlled by Alexander, BOA Building Maintenance and Cleaning Services LLC, which he had registered in April 2019…