TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Authorities have arrested a man accused of participating in an elaborate money laundering scheme and booked him into the Lucas County jail.
Court filings show Vatsal Pankajkumar Mistry is charged with money laundering conspiracy, concealment money laundering and promotion money laundering. The federal charges were filed on Sept. 17 and he was booked into jail on Sept. 18.
FBI agents allege Mistry is connected to a so-called phantom hacker scheme that conned multiple victims in Ohio and Michigan out of thousands of dollars in cash in gold bars. One of the incidents described in charging documents said an elderly woman from Ann Arbor was scammed out of more than half a million dollars…