U.S. currency and coins in a vault at a bank in Westminster, Colorado. | (Photo: Reuters/Rick Wilking)
A family-run religious ministry in Florida that claimed to have 486 employees and received $8.4 million through the federal government’s multibillion dollar coronavirus relief program for small businesses, known as the Paycheck Protection Program, has been found to be a fake operation, authorities say.
ASLAN International Ministry was not involved in any religious work and the only people found to be associated with the project were four members of the same family, according to a civil forfeiture complaint filed in U.S District Court in Orlando cited by CNBC.
U.S. currency and coins in a vault at a bank in Westminster, Colorado. | (Photo: Reuters/Rick Wilking)
A family-run religious ministry in Florida that claimed to have 486 employees and received $8.4 million through the federal government’s multibillion dollar coronavirus relief program for small businesses, known as the Paycheck Protection Program, has been found to be a fake operation, authorities say.
ASLAN International Ministry was not involved in any religious work and the only people found to be associated with the project were four members of the same family, according to a civil forfeiture complaint filed in U.S District Court in Orlando cited by CNBC.