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A Florida man has been convicted of laundering more than $3 million for overseas cyber criminals who victimized four U.S. companies — and the City of Ottawa.

Elvin Lewis Jr., 52, of Hollywood, Florida, was convicted of 11 counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering after a five-day trial in Southern Florida’s U.S. District Court. He’s to be sentenced in January.

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Documents filed in the court case suggest the City of Ottawa was victimized by a sophisticated ring of fraudsters based in China who used Lewis to collect, launder and transfer their ill-gotten proceeds overseas. Lewis had maintainedhe was an unwitting “money mule” for those who orchestrated the fraud.

Prosecutors, however, told court that Lewis knowingly used his Florida real estate business, NuFinancial Consortium, to set up eight accounts at different branches in order to launder millions for cyber criminals.