RICHMOND, Va. – Six individuals pleaded guilty today to taking part in a conspiracy to defraud several retail financing providers in various ways, including computer hacking.
According to court documents, Mahmoud Aljibawi, 39, of Oak Forest, Illinois; Alaelddin Aljibawi, 36, of Orland Park, Illinois; Mohammad Jibawi, 27, of Tinley Park, Illinois; Wael Jibawi, 27, of Palos Heights, Illinois; Jamel Eljebawe, 48, of Tinley Park, Illinois; and Yanal Khrisat, 27, of Burbank, Illinois, conspired to defraud at least five retail financing providers of at least $1.6 million between April 2017 and January 2022. During that period, the defendants opened and maintained several retail furniture stores in and around the Chicago area, which they used to establish merchant relationships with the targeted financing providers. These relationships enabled defendants to submit financing applications in the names of customers. Instead, the defendants submitted applications in the names of identity theft victims then used the approved accounts to charge the financing providers for purchases that did not actually occur. Additionally, in February 2018, the defendants used social engineering to gain access to merchant accounts belonging to other businesses and change the bank accounts designated to receive payments owed those businesses by one retail financing provider. The defendants then submitted the affected businesses’ customer accounts for funding, causing the financing provider to deposit money that the defendants were not actually owed into accounts that they had opened and controlled. The defendants pleaded guilty today to the following offenses.
Defendant
Offenses
Sentencing Date
Mahmoud Aljibawi
Conspiracy to Commit Wire and Bank Fraud
Accessing Protected Computer in Furtherance of Fraud
Wire Fraud
October 18, 2022
Alaelddin Aljibawi
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