In a wire fraud case against a onetime investment banker connected to a now-deposed regime in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, a judge has ruled the prosecution’s inability to identify exactly who the money was stolen from has made the task of restitution impossible.
Noting the “highly unusual circumstances,” Eastern District Judge Allyne Ross (See Profile) declined to enter a restitution order in a $6 million fraud case against Eugene Gourevitch, which involves transactions through various accounts, all originating from a corporate account whose ownership the government could not determine.
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