A controversial owner of several towing companies in San Francisco has been charged again by federal prosecutors with insurance fraud, three weeks after a similar case, along with other various criminal complaints, was filed against him.

In a statement Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said that towing company operator Jose Vicente Badillo — along with co-defendants Kirill Afanasyev, Jason Naraja, and Jaime Respicio — were charged in an indictment with various crimes related to two schemes to defraud auto insurance companies.

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