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Broker Gets 9 Years For Apartment Condo Scheme

Friday, February 01 2008 05:54

Mohammad "Mike" Taghie Kakvand, 54, Park Ridge, Illinois, the ringleader in a mortgage scheme that resulted in abandoned Chicago apartment buildings, was sentenced to 9 years in prison. Kakvand pleaded guilty in early 2007 to one count of wire fraud. Kakvand had been charged in a nine-count indictment alleging that he bought 33 apartment buildings on the South Side of Chicago, did not renovate them, but sold them as condominium units as greatly inflated prices. Straw buyers were used, and $29 million in loans went into default.

As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, Kakvand has been in custody since late 2005, when he was arrested in Canada after being on the run for more than a year. Kakvand was stopped for a speeding violation, and when his driver's license was run authorities discovered he was wanted by the FBI.

Also charged in the scheme were Syed Ali Mohammed Razvi, a fugitive, and real estate appraisers Thomas M. Groh, Eric L. Dorsey and Britt J. Pierre, who already pleaded guilty.

The properties involved are:

6963-69 North Ashland Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7309-11 North Ashland Ave, Chicago, Illinois

1949-51 West Birchwood Ave, Chicago, Illinois

6201-03 South Champlain Ave, Chicago, Illinois

639-41 East 62nd Street, Chicago, Illinois

1606-08 West Chase Ave, Chicago, Illinois

1810-24 West Chase Ave, Chicago, Illinois

6940 South Dorchester Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7316-18 South Dorchester Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7700-04 South Essex Ave, Chicago, Illinois

2451 East 77th Street, Chicago, Illinois

1633-35 West Estes Ave, Chicago, Illinois

6157-59 South Evans Ave, Chicago, Illinois

740 East 62nd Street, Chicago, Illinois

7201-03 South Evans Ave, Chicago, Illinois

741-43 East 72nd Street, Chicago, Illinois

1324 West Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, Illinois

2423 West Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7633-39 North Greenview Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7311-13 North Honore Street, Chicago, Illinois

1600 West Jarvis Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7749-53 South Kingston Ave, Chicago, Illinois

6752 North Lakewood Ave, Chicago, Illinois

5922-24 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois

12130 South Normal Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7647 South Phillips Ave, Chicago, Illinois

4843-45 South Prairie Ave, Chicago, Illinois

5037-39 South Prairie Ave, Chicago, Illinois

5326-28 South Prairie Ave, Chicago, Illinois

1301 West Pratt Blvd, Chicago, Illinois

6752 North Lakewood Ave, Chicago, Illinois

7527-31 North Sheridan Rd, Chicago, Illinois

3215 West Sunnyside Ave, Chicago, Illinois

4400-02 South Vincennes Ave, Chicago, Illinois

4510-12 West Washington Blvd, Chicago, Illinois

7407 North Winchester Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

6 comments

  • Comment Link Jim Sunday, April 19 2009 11:07 posted by Jim

    Oh by the way...Thanks mike!!!!! I agree with the comments laurie put down.

  • Comment Link Jim Sunday, April 19 2009 10:55 posted by Jim

    This man defrauded banks out of millions of dollars. 29 million, then he went on the run and was busted in canada. not to mention all the people he put out of work and the hard time it was for them to get a good position elsewhere..since everyone knew he was guilty.do you think 9 years is enough for this person.absolutley not!!!!
    gets busted and talks and talks...oh boy..that just prooves if you got the money, you can get out of anything. I wonder if he used any of the 29 million to pay his lawyer or better yet, did he put it away in a offshore account, so when he does get out, wahla..instant millionaire. he deserves to be in jail for a long time...9 years is not enough.

  • Comment Link laurie Wednesday, November 12 2008 10:45 posted by laurie

    $29 million was now all of the debt this group defrauded. That was all they charged them with. More addresses were also not included with the indictment. These people will just suffer it out for the rest of their life. Thanks alot Mike!!!!!!

  • Comment Link Dubaia Tuesday, February 26 2008 02:36 posted by Dubaia

    Wow - so much criminal activity in this industry! They should be hard on these crooks.

  • Comment Link Scottsdale az real estate Saturday, February 02 2008 20:16 posted by Scottsdale az real estate

    Wow, $29 million is a LOT of money. I'm glad they caught the guy!

  • Comment Link Esther Marquez Friday, February 01 2008 11:15 posted by Esther Marquez

    We have two fraud cases, the first was the real state person give us the choice of having a equity loan of credit of $15.000.00 this money we didn't how to use only if we need to. at the moment the we sing the papers to refinance for 30 yrs and told us if we want to use some money from our equity of the house and my husband told her we can use $15.000.00 to fixed the house. Three months later the bank call us to let us know we have a account with them for $15.000.00 and we need to pay them.
    and they told us the we sing a paper giving the authorization for them to cash the $15.000.00 of the equity loan and they deposit that money on our account, and never give us the other 15.000.00 from our equity of the house.
    she never give a paper for us to sign giving her the authorization to cash the check.
    My husband and myself are and a negative loan, the person who help us refinance told us, that this loan wasn't a negative loan, it took me 2yrs to notice the situation we have, I ask to my mortgage bank and they toll us this mortgage was negative loan. Please inform us if there is a low income lawyer that can help us in this situation for what happen to us
    also beetwen this process I got sick for a sickness call lupus and is difficult for me to work prolonged times.
    Another thing is the our English is not 100% and we didn’t understand and they don’t explain us the real meaning of those peppers.
    at this moment we are an a very difficult financial situation and because of that we can loose our house and it feels very bad that there is people who can damage a family that bad and get away with this frauds and the state give the license to this people and they can harm our family and others.

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