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ICE Officer Accused of Hiding Cash During Divorce, Dodging Reporting Laws

Posted by Contributing Editor on September 25, 2019 in Crime | Leave a response
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A U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer was arrested Wednesday for allegedly making a series of withdrawals and deposits in a scheme to hide assets from his estranged wife while the couple were getting divorced.

Vardan Keshishyan, 47, of Glendale, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

According to prosecutors, Keshishyan, a deportation officer, in 2015 deposited more than $96,000 into a personal bank account he controlled — the proceeds from the sale of a home he shared with his estranged wife, who filed for divorce from him two months earlier.

He then allegedly made 11 cash withdrawals of about $9,000 each, and was at one point warned by a bank manager that it is illegal to break up a large transaction into a series of small ones in an effort to avoid the $10,000 reporting requirement. The manager told Keshishyan the bank would have to file a report to comply with the law, so Keshishyan canceled the transaction and went to a different bank branch to make the $9,000 withdrawal, prosecutors said.

He also allegedly lied during a divorce court hearing, claiming he had lost $95,000 of the home sale proceeds, partly through a bad investment.

He allegedly “structured” $99,000 back into his bank accounts when his divorce was finalized.

If convicted, Keshishyan faces up to 10 years in prison.

ICE Officer Accused of Hiding Cash During Divorce, Dodging Reporting Laws was last modified: September 25th, 2019 by Contributing Editor

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