Andris Pukke, repeat threaster sentenced to eight years in prison

Attorney of the United States for the southern district of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that Andris Pukke, a/k/a “Marc Romeo”, a/k/a “Andy Storm”, yesterday was sentenced to eight years in prison by the American district J. Paul Oetken, in which a shy of the louds of the louds of the litter in years of the louds of the Hundreds of Reague of real estate Victories-Were Retire or Retire or Retire or Retire or Retire Off around $ 77 million.

“Hundreds of hard-working Americans-many of them pensioners have their savings for this brutal fraud,” said American lawyer Jay Clayton. “Andris Pukke thought he could hide behind foreign country deals and false names, but he was wrong. This sentence removes a bad actor and serves as a warning for other potential fraudsters.”

As claimed in the indictment and statements in public archives and public legal proceedings:

Pukke directed and controlled Sanctuary Belize, a holiday and pension community that was under development in Belize. Pukke fraudulent hundreds of victims in a fraudulent way to invest more than $ 100 million in plots in Sanctuary Belize. Victims bought a lot with the concept that they would obtain a lot in a built -in community that they could use to build pension homes, holiday homes or investment houses. The victims were encouraged to invest by Pukke and his sellers, and a large majority of the victims was in fact able to build the houses in Sanctuary Belize they had hoped for.

Pukke has earlier convictions for post -fraud and obstruction of justice and has a prior judgment of $ 172 million against him from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with an earlier misleading company that he checked, Ameridebt. Knowing that victims would not want to invest in Sanctuary Belize if they were aware of the criminal background of the man who checked Sanctuary Belize, Pukke ordered his sellers to lie and to say that he was not involved in Sanctuary Belize. Pukke used the Aliass “Marc Romeo” and “Andy Storm” to hide his involvement and control over Sanctuary Belize.

Pukke also ordered his sellers to tell victims that Sanctuary Belize had no debts and that every dollar of victims would develop the property. Sanctuary Belize even had more than $ 12 million in debts, and Pukke stable almost $ 10 million from Sanctuary Belize for, among other things, the purchase and renovation of a house on the water, the repayment of a personal loan, personal investments in starting companies, child benefits and friends purchase.

While he was investigated by the American lawyer’s office for the southern district of New York, Pukke tried in vain to encourage another individual to make a Sham document that he hoped for public prosecutors and the research into Grand Jury in an attempt to damage persecution.

Pukke was convicted of wire fraud and obstruction of justice on 10 July 2024. In connection with his conviction, victims sent nearly two hundred letters to the court that described the damage that caused them, including in some cases, the loss of their pension savings.

In addition to the imprisonment, Pukke, 56, from Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to three years of accompanied release. Pukke was instructed to forfeit $ 9,912,396 and was previously ordered in a lawsuit with the FTC to pay a refund to victims of Sanctuary Belize for an amount of $ 120.2 million.

Mr. Clayton praised the excellent work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Clayton also thanked the Federal Trade Commission for their help with the case.

This case is handled by the complex fraud and cyber crime unit of the office. Assistant American lawyers Jeffrey C. Coffman, James McMahon and Kevin Mead are in charge of the persecution. – Source