Post by Logan on Jan 7, 2017 1:38:39 GMT -6
The two men were supposed to meet at the 99 Restaurant in Hudson.
Just before noon on Wednesday, a man going by the name of “Pete” pulled into the parking lot, driving a red Nissan SUV he’d rented days earlier.
Federal agents were watching, including one stationed at the bar. But Pete didn’t go into the restaurant. He pulled alongside a white Lexus, and motioned to the driver to follow him across the street to a supermarket parking lot.
Moments later, Pete — whose real name is Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, a Brazilian with ties to TelexFree Inc.’s fugitive co-owner Carlos Wanzeler — pulled a suitcase from the SUV’s trunk. It was packed with $2.2 million, he told his contact, placing the bag in the Lexus, according to a detailed affidavit filed in US District Court in Boston.
What followed was a multihour odyssey that led to the discovery of nearly $20 million in cash hidden inside a box spring, Rocha’s arrest by agents from Homeland Security Investigations, and his confession that he was moving money for Wanzeler and the former TelexFree executive’s nephew.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/01/06/the-telexfree-saga-leads-box-spring-stuffed-with-million/iPKLuFk8WZp7Rl0B4C18SJ/story.html
Just before noon on Wednesday, a man going by the name of “Pete” pulled into the parking lot, driving a red Nissan SUV he’d rented days earlier.
Federal agents were watching, including one stationed at the bar. But Pete didn’t go into the restaurant. He pulled alongside a white Lexus, and motioned to the driver to follow him across the street to a supermarket parking lot.
Moments later, Pete — whose real name is Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, a Brazilian with ties to TelexFree Inc.’s fugitive co-owner Carlos Wanzeler — pulled a suitcase from the SUV’s trunk. It was packed with $2.2 million, he told his contact, placing the bag in the Lexus, according to a detailed affidavit filed in US District Court in Boston.
What followed was a multihour odyssey that led to the discovery of nearly $20 million in cash hidden inside a box spring, Rocha’s arrest by agents from Homeland Security Investigations, and his confession that he was moving money for Wanzeler and the former TelexFree executive’s nephew.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/01/06/the-telexfree-saga-leads-box-spring-stuffed-with-million/iPKLuFk8WZp7Rl0B4C18SJ/story.html