Two former Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies have been indicted along with two soldiers from Australia and Great Britain for staging a fake immigration raid on a Chinese man to coerce him into signing away his business interests.
The fake raid was reportedly orchestrated by a Chinese businesswoman who still lives in China in an attempt to shakedown her former business associate, an immigrant from China and legal U.S. resident, into having him sign away $37 million in business interests. The orchestrator reportedly paid $400,000 in 2019 for the four mercenaries to carry it out.
“At some point, this wealthy Chinese national decided to hire these mercenaries to go carry out what they did,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada told reporters in downtown LA. “The goal was to get this person to sign a contract to give away his business rights. That’s what he ended up doing, but he…
