Facebook and Google Lose $123M To Fraudster

Evaldas Rimasauskas 

A Lithuanian scam artist ,Evaldas Rimasauskas is being extradited to the United States for  conning $123 million out of Facebook and Google by sending fake emails.

The Lithuamian court of appeal took the decision to extradite the swindler on the grounds that the offence was committed in the US.
The appeal court has stated that the verdit is irrevocable.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York accused Rimasauskas of wire transfer fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

It is alleged that Rimasauskas took part in the scam using e-mail correspondence and posed as an Asian computer hardware manufacturer to persuade Google and FaceBook to accept fraudulent invoices and transfer funds to the company established under his name in Latvia.

The funds were transferred to Evaldas Rimasaukas company’s accounts in banks in Cyprus and Latvia.

The Lithuanian appeal court stated that it has not ascertained whether or not the alleged scam artist is guilty, but it's trusting in the  information received from the US.

Rimasauskas is suspected to have conned 23 million dollars from Google and 100 million dollars from FaceBook.

He was detained in Lithuania on March 16. On April 18, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Lithuania received the U.S. Justice Department’s request to extradite the suspect.

Rimasauskas has denied the charges. Meanwhile, the attorney of Rimasauskas claimed that the investigation of the suspected crime must take place in Lithuania as the allegedly criminal actions were carried out within the country, local media reported. Lithuania has a bilateral extradition agreement with the United States and this case “meets all the criteria”, the chairman of the court underlined.