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Tarik Jaafar

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The profile

An Ashburn, Virginia man who, with his wife, applied for 18 PPP loans worth $6.6 million for four companies with no employees. They applied in April and May 2020; banks paid out $1.4 million and froze nearly all of it, and he was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Identity and role

Tarik Jaafar, 43 at sentencing, of Ashburn, Virginia, was charged with his wife, Monika Magdalena Jaworska, in a sealed criminal complaint filed June 19, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, and arrested on June 22. He pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information in United States v. Jaafar, No. 1:20-cr-00185 (E.D. Va.), and was sentenced that November, five months after his arrest.

The scheme and pandemic-relief role

The statement of facts he signed describes four Virginia companies registered by the couple between 2010 and 2013: Blue Pearl, LLC; Global Capital Financing, LLC; Washington Capital Group, LLC; and Visla Capital, LLC. Three had lapsed registrations that were reinstated in 2020: one in February and two on April 27, while the applications were going out.

From April 13 to May 6, 2020, the couple filed 18 PPP applications with 12 lenders in those companies' names. The applications claimed employees and payroll the companies did not have, gave false business addresses and attached fabricated Forms 941 and payroll records. Jaworska signed 14 of them and Jaafar four. They sought $6,640,200; four loans from three lenders paid out $1,438,500. The lenders froze almost all of it. The exception was $30,000 that Jaafar withdrew in cash, which the government recovered when he was arrested. Jaworska also filed two Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications with the SBA in April 2020.

The restitution order splits the $220,573 owed, jointly with Jaworska, among three lenders ($210,573 together) and the SBA ($10,000), with the SBA paid last.

  • Charged: criminal complaint, June 19, 2020; criminal information, August 25, 2020: conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 371 to commit bank fraud and to defraud the SBA.
  • Detained: ordered held in custody on July 17, 2020, after a magistrate judge found a risk of non-appearance; the court denied two later requests for release.
  • Pleaded guilty: August 25, 2020, before U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton.
  • Sentenced: November 13, 2020, to 12 months in prison, below the guideline range, and two years of supervised release, with $220,573 in restitution and a consent forfeiture order (judgment entered November 18, 2020).

Where they are now (2025–2026)

We found no later public record tied to this case.

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