United States of America v. Kirill Afanasyev

Date: 11-07-2025

Case Number: 23-CR-42

Judge: Trina L Thompson

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Francisco County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office in San Francisco

Defendant's Attorney:

Description: San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Jose Vicente Badillo, Kirill Afanasyev, Jason Naraja, and Jaime Respicio conspired to defraud an auto insurance company by submitting a fraudulent insurance claim on a wrecked car that Afanasyev purchased in May 2019. The Indictment alleges that, when Afanasyev bought the car, it was undrivable, with significant front-end damage. Nevertheless, the Indictment says, Respicio obtained an insurance policy on, and later took title to, the car before Afanasyev, posing as Respicio, falsely reported to the insurance company in August 2019 that Respicio had been in a single-car accident in it in San Francisco. The Indictment further alleges that Afanasyev made materially false statements and misrepresentations to the insurance company, after which the insurance company processed and approved the claim and sent Respicio an insurance reimbursement check for $47,856.34. The Indictment alleges that Badillo participated in this scheme to defraud by agreeing to falsely document that his towing company had towed the wrecked car from the purported accident location.

Outcome: Defendant was committed to the Bureau of Prisons for a term of 24 months for Counts 1-8 of the Superseding Indictment to run concurrently; followed by 3 years of supervised release to follow as to Counts 1-8 of the Superseding Indictment to run concurrently. This sentence to run concurrently with the sentence in 24-cr-00471-TLT-1. A special assessment fee of $800.00 is imposed. Fine is waived.

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