LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A couple who the FBI says is on the run after being convicted in an $18 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme were sentenced to several years of prison time Monday in absentia

Richard Ayvazyan, 43, and his wife and co-defendant, 37-year-old Marietta Terabelian, remain at large after the FBI says they removed their electronic tracking bracelets in August. They had been found guilty in June in an $18 million COVID-19 relief loan scheme, that had included Ayvazyan’s brother and several other relatives.

Even though they weren’t present at Monday’s sentencing, Judge Stephen V. Wilson sentenced Ayvazyan to 17 years in prison. Terabalian was sentenced to six years in prison.

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