Foreign National Who Fled and Was Later Extradited from the United Kingdom Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud in Relation to Theft of Over 2,600 Checks from Religious Institutions

Greenbelt, Maryland – Florin Vaduva, age 31, of Dania Beach, Florida pleaded responsible yesterday to conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and wire fraud.  As half of his plea settlement, Vaduva might be ordered to pay at the least $1,085,151.42 in restitution.  

The responsible plea was introduced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron; Acting Postal Inspector in Charge Greg L. Torbenson of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division; Acting Special Agent in Charge Selwyn Smith of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore; Acting Special Agent in Charge Quenton Sallows, of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (FDIC-OIG); Chief Marcus Jones of the Montgomery County Police Department; Chief Toni Dezomits of the Cary, North Carolina, Police Department; and Sheriff Dusty Rhoades of the Williamson County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office.

According to his responsible plea, from June 2018 to January 2021, Vaduva, Mateus Vaduva, Nicole Gindac, Daniel Velcu, Marian Unguru, Vali Unguru, and others conspired to steal checks from the U.S. mail meant for non secular establishments and deposit the illegally obtained funds into a number of fraudulent financial institution accounts at varied sufferer monetary establishments.  Conspirators, together with Vaduva, performed the thefts by driving to roadside mailboxes of church buildings and different non secular establishments and eradicating the mail, particularly focusing on donation checks.

As half of the scheme to defraud, Vaduva and different co-conspirators fraudulently opened financial institution accounts at sufferer monetary establishments beneath false identities.  Conspiracy members typically opened fictitious financial institution accounts with the help of a conspiracy member that was an worker at one of the sufferer monetary establishments. 

Vaduva and his co-conspirators fraudulently negotiated the stolen checks at the sufferer monetary establishments by depositing the stolen checks into financial institution accounts by means of ATM transactions.  Subsequently, Vanduva and his co-conspirators withdrew cash from the fraudulently opened financial institution accounts and spent the proceeds utilizing debit playing cards.

For instance, from January 2020 to May 2020, Vaduva deposited or participated in the deposit of at the least 49 stolen checks totaling at the least $27,508.84 from church buildings situated in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia into 5 fraudulently opened financial institution accounts.  The whole of stolen checks deposited into these accounts totaled roughly $36,660.91.  Over the course of the conspiracy, conspiracy members acquired roughly at the least $1,085,151.42 from 2,657 stolen checks.  After turning into conscious of the investigation, Vaduva fled to the United Kingdom.  He was later apprehended on September 5, 2021 and was extradited to the United States.

Vaduva faces a most of 30 years in jail adopted by up to 5 years of supervised launch for conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and wire fraud.  U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang has scheduled sentencing for August 8, 2022, at 2:00 p.m.

United States Attorney Erek L. Barron recommended the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, HSI, the FDIC Office of Inspector General, the Montgomery County Police Department, the Cary (North Carolina) Police Department, and the Williamson County (Tennessee) Sheriff’s Office for his or her work in the investigation.  Mr. Barron thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Wright, who’s prosecuting the case.

For extra data on the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office, its priorities, and sources obtainable to report fraud, please go to www.justice.gov/usao-md and https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/report-fraud.

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