One of the biggest embezzlers of the St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union massive fraud case was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Dec. 22 by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher A. Boyko in Cleveland.

Boyko also ordered Gezim Selgjekaj to pay $16 million in restitution.

Earlier this year a jury convicted Selgjekaj, 44, of Avon Lake for embezzling more than $10.6 million in loan proceeds, bribing the SPCFCU chief operating officer, Anthony Raguz,  to receive those loans, and laundering the stolen money that contributed to the collapse of the Eastlake, Ohio, credit union.

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