WISCONSIN, 31 July 2026 (TON): Roshan Shah (age 22 years), an Indian national studding in Canada of student visa collected more than US$3.7 million by fraud from 15 victims of across multiple US states. US authorities said confirmed that he has been sentenced to prison in the United States for his role in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that targeted elderly Americans, US authorities said.
United States District Judge Brett Ludwig sentenced Roshan Shah to 48 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to commit money laundering. Court documents said Shah was part of a fraud network that deceived victims into believing they had become targets of financial scams and needed to hand over their gold so that the gold could be kept in a safe box in Washington, DC. Victims were falsely told that if they failed to do so, they risked losing all their money.
According to the US Department of Justice, Shah had been studying in Canada on a student visa before entering the United States on a visitor visa. Investigators said Shah travelled across several US states to collect cash and gold from victims. He was part of a larger conspiracy in which accomplices based in India contacted victims by phone and falsely claimed that their identities had been used to commit serious crimes.