With the increasing interest in collecting worldwide, especially the demand for Pokemon cards has reached extreme levels, we have heard a lot of 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 USA bought a Pokemon card with the bulk of his pandemic support loan 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, 85 thousand dollars loan repayment, 10 thousand dollars fine… Was it worth it?
31-year-old Vinath Oudomsine, who bought a rare Charizard Pokemon card for $57,000, has been sentenced to three years in prison, according to the decision published by the US Department of Justice. In addition, Oudomsine will be released on parole for 3 years after serving a jail sentence and will pay the $85,000 loan and $10,000 fine.
But what about that rare Charizard card, valued at exactly $57,789, first-edition, shadowless and holographic almost intact? Oudomsine also agreed to hand over this card to the authorities. Thus, the total expense arising from this move of Oudomsine will exceed 152 thousand dollars.
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