Mexican Woman Charged in $2.5 Million False Ex-Im Loan Scheme Arrested
A Mexican citizen charged in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank through wire and bank fraud, leading to a Bank loss of more than $2.5 million, was arrested in El Paso April 23. Maria de Jesus Ortiz-Saldivar, 47, was…
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charged in an October 2011 federal indictment, which says that between January 2005 and February 2009, Ortiz-Saldivar and others allegedly sent false loan applications, financial statements and other documents to obtain Ex-Im guaranteed loans, according to an Ex-Im Office of the Inspector General statement. The loans were purportedly for the purchase and export of U.S. goods into Mexico, Ex-Im said. Ortiz-Saldivar was a former accountant for Centro Oncologico de Norte S.A., a purported cancer treatment center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Eight other Mexican fugitives are still wanted in connection with this case, Ex-Im said.