A Chinese national residing in the United States illegally has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for running a scheme that used stolen identities to apply for loans to buy luxury cars for resale, according to federal prosecutors.
Zheng Huachun, a 43-year-old also known as Yuan Ri, was sentenced in federal court in Hartford, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut announced on April 2.
The defendant, who last lived in Queens, New York, has been in detention since his arrest in January 2025. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in January 2026….
Chinese Illegal Immigrant Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme to Buy Luxury Cars
