3 Chicago ÔentrepreneursÕ accused of $4M fraud
By Associated Press
Posted Jan. 6
at 6:47 a.m.
A federal indictment accuses three
Chicago residents who allegedly posed as successful entrepreneurs with
defrauding more than 50 victims out of approximately $4 million.
The indictment unsealed Wednesday in
U.S. District Court in Chicago accuses 62-year-old Maria Chychula, 38-year-old
Vitaliy Baka and 41-year-old Igor Anatsko of running a variety of fraudulent
activities through several businesses between May of 2001 and October of last
year. All three were charged with nine counts of wire fraud.
Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the
U.S. AttorneyÕs office, says federal agents arrested Chychula on Wednesday, but
were still searching for Baka. Samborn says Anatsko is believed to have left
the country and is a fugitive.
It was not known if Chycula has an attorney.
December 30, 2010