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Quanta Computer (Latvian impersonation shell)

🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia · FOUNDED 2013
THE FIGURE
~$122M
Company money wired on fake invoices: ~$99M from Facebook and ~$23M from Google.
WHAT IT SAID IT WAS

A company registered in Latvia with the same name as Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese server maker that supplied Google and Facebook.

WHAT IT REALLY WAS

A shell used to send fake invoices, contracts and letters on the real supplier's name so that Google and Facebook wired about $122M to accounts in Latvia and Cyprus, 2013–2015.

THE STORY

In 2013 Evaldas Rimasauskas registered a company in Latvia named Quanta Computer, the same as the Taiwanese hardware maker that built servers for Google and Facebook, opened bank accounts in Latvia and Cyprus, and sent the two tech giants invoices, contracts and letters bearing forged signatures and corporate seals. Their accounts-payable teams paid about $122 million between 2013 and 2015, which he moved on through Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary and Hong Kong. Lithuanian police arrested him in March 2017; he pleaded guilty in Manhattan in March 2019 and was sentenced to five years.

WHO RAN IT
Evaldas Rimasauskas ▸
registered the shell and ran the scheme · open the case file
WHO WAS HURT
Facebook (~$99M)Google (~$23M)the real Quanta Computer, whose name was used
HOW IT ENDED
Founded
2013
Based
Riga, Latvia
Ended
2015
How
collapsed — scheme ended 2015; Rimasauskas arrested March 2017 and extradited

No action against the shell itself. Rimasauskas pleaded guilty (March 2019) and was sentenced to 5 years with $49.7M forfeiture and $26.5M restitution (December 2019). Google and Facebook said they recovered most of the money.

SOURCES
casefiles/CASE_017_RIMASAUSKAS_BRIEF.md
Facts as published in court records, regulator releases and the sources above. Anyone charged and not convicted is alleged only.
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