TOLEDO, Ohio — Two people were named in a criminal complaint by the FBI on Monday for engaging in a money laundering scheme in Lucas County and surrounding states.
The affidavit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, alleges that Tejas Patel and Navya Umeshkumar Bhatt participated in a Paypal refund scam that bilked hundreds of thousands of dollars from elderly victims in the region, including at least one in Toledo.
The FBI says elderly victims were targeted by the scammers, who posed as tech workers or members of government agencies, to turn over gold bars, cash, or bitcoin…