Imran Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were indicted by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with a total of four charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said Thursday.
Awan and Alvi were charged with “conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on a loan or credit application, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions.” A grand jury returned the indictment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The former IT staffer worked under Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and was arrested by federal officials in July as he was attempting to flee the country amid the bank fraud scandal. Awan was picked up at Dulles International Airport by members of the FBI, U.S. Capitol Police, and Customs and Border Protection in connection to his alleged involvement in “double charging” for House IT equipment and possibly exposing private House information online.
Wasserman Schultz fired Awan after the arrest became public, and said afterward she “did the right thing” in standing by Awan for as long as she did.
An arraignment date has not yet been set.
