Federal prosecutors say a Bethesda man who fled to Iran to avoid bank fraud charges ripped off $30,000 from a U.S. bank while in Tehran.

Michael Milan fled to Iran in July, just days after FBI agents informed him he was a target in a bank fraud investigation.

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