A man in New York City pleaded guilty to a visa scam in which he pocketed more than $100,000 from four victims, authorities said Wednesday.
According to court documents, subsequently, on October 2016, a third victim paid a total of $17,000 for a visa for her brother-in-law in Uzbekistan. Her relative was allegedly instructed to provide his passport and an application to an associate of Turdialiev's in Uzbekistan, but the brother-in-law never received his passport or visa.
Turdialiev was arrested months later on Sept. 8, 2017 and weeks later, on Oct. 24, 2017, Turdialiev was indicted by a grand jury in a nine-count indictment charging him with criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree, two counts of grand larceny in the third degree, criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree and scheme to defraud in the first degree.