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Former Olympic figure skater Luka Klasinc charged with defrauding COVID relief fund
ABC News ^ | 08 Jun 2021 | Aaron Katersky

Posted on 06/09/2021 1:14:55 AM PDT by blueplum

A former Olympian has been charged with defrauding the Small Business Administration over a pandemic loan.

Luka Klasinc, a Slovenian figure skater, competed in the men's singles event at the 1992 Winter Olympics. ...

...Beginning last July, Klasinc's company received more than $1.5 million in Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

When accounts that controlled the money started making suspicious wire transfers, Klasinc's bank froze the funds, according to the criminal complaint....

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: covid; covidtheft; klasinc; pandemicloans; sba

1 posted on 06/09/2021 1:14:55 AM PDT by blueplum
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Klasinc, 48, used “falsified documents during his attempts to gain access to over

$1.5 million in funds...Klasinc opened three business bank accounts 2019,

July and September 2020, the accounts received $1,595,800 from the SBA


2 posted on 06/09/2021 1:51:36 AM PDT by caww ( )
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“In the same period, there were numerous wire transfers from the BOB77 Accounts ‘to International Beneficiaries,”

So WHO was he transferring funds to????


3 posted on 06/09/2021 1:54:51 AM PDT by caww ( )
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