Man Faces 20 Years In Jail For Using Relief Fund To Buy A Pokemon Card
If you thought you were a huge Pokemon fan, wait til you hear about this guy.
Would you risk being charged with using a Covid-19 pandemic relief loan to buy a Pokemon card for US$57,000 (RM236,464)? Vinath Oudomsine just had to catch ’em all.
Vinath was charged with lying about the number of people his business employed and the company’s gross revenue on an application for a pandemic economic relief loan. He currently faces one count of wire fraud.
According to Malay Mail, prosecutors said the man had received US$85,000 (RM352,622) in August last year, and used US$57,789 (RM239,737) to buy the Pokemon card in January.
For those who don’t know, rare Pokemon cards can cost up to thousands of dollars and fanatics gather these collectible items to bid up prices for trading cards, video games and other mementos.
Vinath claimed he was the sole owner of a business that brought in US$235,000 (RM974,897) in a 12-month span and had…
