On December 19, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Evaldas Rimasauskas, 51, of Vilnius, Lithuania, had been sentenced to 5 years in prison for his role in a business email compromise scam. He will be removed from the U.S. to Lithuania upon his release.
U.S. District Judge George Daniels ordered Rimasauskas to pay restitution of $26,479,079.24. He did not impose any fine. Rimasauskas previously agreed to forfeit $49,738,559.41 to the government.