Evaldas Rimasauskas: $120M business email compromise

Case-file story

Timeline

1. 2013–2015Scheme period¹
2. 2017-03Arrested by Lithuanian authorities¹
3. 2017-08Extradited to S.D.N.Y.¹
4. 2019-12-19Sentenced to 60 months¹

Verified facts

• Phishing emails to employees and agents of two U.S.-based internet companies redirected payments owed to a real Asian hardware maker into look-alike-company accounts in Latvia and Cyprus. The companies wired over $120 million in total.¹
• He also had forged invoices, contracts, and letters bearing fake corporate stamps of the Victim Companies submitted to banks to support the transfers.¹
• Ordered to forfeit $49,738,559.41 and pay $26,479,079.24 in restitution.¹

Editorial notes

• DOJ does not name the victim companies ("a multinational technology company and a multinational online social media company"). Neither does this site.

Sources

1. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lithuanian-man-sentenced-5-years-prison-theft-over-120-million-fraudulent-business · Wayback