Jail for Man Who Bought a Pokemon Card with a Pandemic Support Loan

With the increasing interest in collecting worldwide, especially the demand for Pokemon cards has reached extreme levels, we have heard many interesting things about these cards. Pokemon cards, which even became the vegetation of Twitch for a while, came to the fore in recent months with a man who bought cards with the help of money given in the pandemic.

A man in the US bought a Pokemon card with a large portion of the pandemic support loan he received for his workplace. The only card this man bought was worth $57,000. The man who did not use the loan for its intended purpose, on top of that, lied about the number of employees and annual income in the loan application. The man’s weeks-long trial has finally come to an end, and this man’s fate has been revealed.

3 years in prison, 3 years on parole, $85K loan repayment, $10,000 fine… Was it worth it?

According to the decision published by the US Department of Justice, 31-year-old Vinath Oudomsine bought a rare Charizard Pokemon card for $ 57 thousand. sentenced to three years in prison. Also, Oudomsine, after jail time as well as jail time He will be released on parole for 3 years. and 85,000 dollar loan and 10 thousand dollar fine will pay.

But what about that rare, first-edition, shadowless, holographic Charizard card, worth a whopping $57,789, in almost untouched condition? Oudomsine, this card too hand over to the authorities he accepted. Thus the total expense resulting from this act of Oudomsine 152 thousand dollars will have exceeded.