A French national was sentenced to a decade in prison June 10 for defrauding the California State Controller’s Office out of nearly $2 million from its Unclaimed Property Division, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors say Gabriel Adrien Lobe Diop, 35, who previously resided in Fremont and Agoura Hills, posed as multiple victims for whom the controller’s office held “significant” amounts of unclaimed property.