U.S. District Court in Charleston Tuesday handed down a three-year prison sentence to Angella Muthoni Chegge-Kraszeski, 34, of Raleigh, NC. Having already served time behind bars Chegge-Kraszeski will spend the next 20 months in the federal prison after which she will be deported back to Kenya.

Chegge-Kraszeski, and five other Kenyan nationals already serving time, all pleaded guilty to their various parts in the scam where bank accounts set-up in similar sounding names to existing businesses received over $3 million in re-routed money owed to legitimate contractors from state officials. The majority of the money has been recovered although around three quarters of a million dollars already sent to Kenya has not been retrieved.

It is thought that the leaders of the scheme remain unidentified although Chegge-Kraszeski assisted officials leading up to the convictions.

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