Story by Ethan
On April 10th, 2025, the arrest of Evangelos Drosos, age 50, was announced by Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella. Evangelos Drosos was charged with second-degree theft by deception, and second-degree money laundering. The arrest and charges against Evengelos Drosos were a result of the investigation launched by Chief Matthew Finck of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, on April 10th, 2025, their Financial Crimes Unit received information about an alleged money laundering case. After an investigation lasting several months, detectives allege that Evangelos Drosos stole approximately $496,788.88 through check-kiting. Allegedly over a period of three weeks, Evangelos Drosos would write checks to himself through several different institutions and then deposit those checks under a separate financial institution from his main bank into accounts that he knew didn’t have funds to cover the checks. The provisional credit accumulated was then abused in order for Evangelos Drosos to take out money and drain non-existent funds from the accounts he would deposit the self-written checks into. Evangelos Drosos was located and arrested on April 9th, 2025, in Paramus, New Jersey.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office stated that the charges against Evangelos Drosos are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
