A Miramar barbershop owner and several of his employees, along with roughly two dozen other San Diegans, allegedly played key roles in a massive international elder fraud scheme suspected of bilking more than 500 victims out of over $40 million, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday and related court documents in San Diego federal court.
While prosecutors contend that the masterminds of the fraud scheme worked from India, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, the San Diego barbershop owner and his alleged crew are suspected of moving tens of millions of dollars from the fraud victims to the international perpetrators through fake San Diego businesses in exchange for a cut of the profits, according to court records.
The FBI’s San Diego field office announced that many of the defendants were arrested Wednesday in a series of raids around the county, including at Mecca Barbershop in Miramar…