ICE Agents Have Seized Over $7 Million in COVID-19 Fraud Proceeds, Made 53 Arrests

ICE said its agents have seized more than 900 shipments and at least $7 million in “illicit proceeds.”
ICE Agents Have Seized Over $7 Million in COVID-19 Fraud Proceeds, Made 53 Arrests
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 14, 2015. John Moore/Getty Images
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Tuesday that in the first 100 days of its new operation launched in response to a spike in criminal activity since the CCP virus outbreak, its agents have seized more than 900 shipments and at least $7 million in “illicit proceeds.”

Launched in April, Operation Stolen Promise set out to “protect the homeland from the increasing and evolving threat posed by COVID-19-related fraud and criminal activity,” the agency said in a news release.

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