| Olympic Skater from Slovenia
Pleads Guilty To COVID Fraud of HSBC Which
Frozen Funds
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY MAG COURT
EXCLUSIVE, Jan 24 - In
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York, a guilty plea was taken
by Magistrate Judge Sarah L.
Cave from a Slovenian former
figure skater, in the 1992
Olympics, who took $1.5
million in SBA COVID relief
loans for a skating project.
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The defendant
Luka Klasinc said that age got
to him and he wanted a new
project. At first he said that
it was another person who
applied for the loan from
HBSC. Then, after the
prosecutor spoke to the
defense lawyer, a longer
story: he conspired with one
person, contributed to the
fraudulent application, did it
with a second person.
Without irony, as
a skater, he said his funds
got frozen. Then he lied to
the FBI, "in a building near
here," he said.
The plea
was accepted. The sentencing
will be on May 21.
The case is US v.
Klasinc, 21-cr-443
(Hellerstein / Cave)
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