GLEN ELLYN, Ill. — Federal charges have been filed against a suburban woman accused of conducting a $900,000 merchandise fraud scheme in Chicagoland.
A recently unsealed federal indictment charges 40-year-old Iryna Boguslavska, a Glen Ellyn resident, with one count of wire fraud in connection with the alleged fraud scheme.
According to prosecutors, Boguslavska allegedly conducted the scheme over a three-year period, between October 2020 and October 2023, by purchasing high-end clothing online and later returning the items in person multiple times, sometimes even returning cheaper alternatives in place of the more costly merchandise…