Save Our State - Sacramento Area Russian Mortgage Scam Nets Multiple Arrests

A large handful of Russian immigrants have been arrested and indicted on mortgage fraud charges for creating false buyers, and billing mortgage holders for fix-up work that was never done. Russian immigrant crime isn't anymore acceptable than that of our southern neighbors

http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archiv...arraigned.html

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Defendants Veniamin Markevich, Edward Shevtsov, Peter Kuzmenko and Sergey Blizenko allegedly created shell companies, or used companies that had no connection with the properties, for use in submitting invoices to falsely claim that they had made repairs to the properties. They then received payments from escrow to which they were not entitled, officials said.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archiv...#ixzz1MgOL1cnH