A man and woman from Queens are accused of stealing more than $2.8 million from a bank account that appears to be linked to a wealthy Long Island couple who mysteriously vanished more than five months ago.
Federal authorities in Long Island have charged Yinye Wang, 36, and Quiju Wu, 55, with linking Wu’s bank accounts with the couple, who were reported missing on March 31 by the Nassau County Police Department.
Though the victims are not named in the criminal complaint, the details of the case appear to match up with the disappearance of JuanJuan Zwang and her husband Peishuan Fan, who Newsday reported went missing from their $3.8 million Old Brookville, L.I. mansion just hours after having dinner with their sons.
The couple is still reported missing, and the Nassau County Police Department has an active investigation underway into their disappearance.
Starting on June 29, one of the two victims, then the other, were added to Wu’s bank account, and that account was changed from “individual owner” to “joint with rights of survivorship,” according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Long Island.
A flurry of withdrawals and transfers followed, with Yu siphoning $2.8 million in total by July 10, the feds allege. The criminal complaint shows Yu in bank surveillance photos for three separate transfers, with Wang standing behind her in one of them.
Wang, who also goes by “Roy Wang,” has also been tied to other identity theft crimes, and on Dec. 20, 2023, he was flagged at a checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport after TSA officers found several phone calls, ID cards, credit cards and financial documents under multiple names, the complaint alleges.
The feds say he had 17 credit cards under 12 names, New York and Oklahoma driver’s licenses under names not his own, bank statements under 10 names, checks under five names from four different banks, a New Jersey tax refund check belonging to someone else, and several notes with names, dates of births, social security numbers, bank account pins and passwords.
Wang, who has addresses in College Point and Roslyn, was busted in California Thursday and released on bond. Wu, who lives in Flushing, was arrested Thursday in Texas and remains held on an immigration detainer.
