Mihaly Kulcsar, Wire Fraud and False Identity Documents, Florida 2014

A Florida man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and possession of false identity documents.

Mihaly Kulcsar, a 33-year-old citizen of Romania, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Kulcsar pleaded guilty to the charges on May 22, 2014. As part of the judgment, the Court also ordered Kulcsar to pay $355,000 in restitution to his victims.

According to court documents, Kulcsar was arrested in July 2013, at a Bank of America branch in Orlando, after he tried to open a bank account with fraudulent identification documents.

Further investigation revealed that Kulcsar possessed fake passports and other fake identity documents in four different names, from Denmark, Finland, France, and the Slovak Republic.

Kulcsar admitted that he had come to the United States with these fake documents and identities to open business accounts at several banks in central Florida.

As part of his scheme, Kulcsar targeted large banking institutions, including Bank of America, Fifth Third, Chase, SunTrust, Wells Fargo, and BB&T. Kulcsar obtained $355,000 during the course of the scheme, which he wired the money to his co-conspirators through overseas bank accounts.

This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Bruce S. Ambrose.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/romanian-man-sentenced-wire-fraud-and-possession-false-identity-documents