Former Schaumburg resident indicted in $13 million extortion scheme

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A former Schaumburg resident accused of trying to extort $13 million from a West Virginia coal executive and threatening to kill relatives if he didn’t pay up has been indicted on federal charges.

A grand jury in Charleston charged current West Hollywood California resident Vivek M. Shah with four counts of interfering with interstate commerce and using interstate commerce to threaten extortion.

The indictment came Wednesday, but court records show Shah was arrested in Chicago last week. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney.

An affidavit by a U.S. postal inspector who investigated the case says Shah also uses the aliases Ray Amin and Rohan Gill, and has also lived in Schaumburg,Investigators say Shah targeted four wealthy individuals altogether, but the affidavit names only Christopher Cline, owner of Foresight Reserves.