Indictment — No. 2:22-cr-00153 (Dkt. 1, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

An indictment filed April 19, 2022 as Document 1 in United States v. Artur Chanchikyan, Case 2:22-cr-00153-DMG, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, citing wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343, theft of government property under 18 U.S.C. § 641 and concealment money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i). It states the defendant owned Gentle Touch Home Health Care, Inc., whose Medicare payments were suspended on or about December 27, 2019, and A-1 Landing, Inc., and was a trustee of the MV Family Trust. It describes the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund, the PPP and the EIDL program. Counts One through Three charge a scheme from about March 2020 to about April 2021 to defraud a lender and the SBA, including a PPP application for Gentle Touch on or about May 1, 2020 after it had ceased operations.

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