Pair swiped nearly $3M from LI couple last seen in Gold Coast home: cops

A pair of conniving thieves swiped nearly $3 million from a Long Island couple who mysteriously vanished from their luxurious Gold Coast mansion months ago, according to authorities.

Suspects Yinye Wang, 36, of Roslyn, LI, and Qiuju Wu, 55, of Queens have been hit with federal bank-fraud charges for funneling $2.8 million from accounts belonging to still-missing businessman Peishuan Fan, 48, and his wife JuanJuan Zwang, 44, this past summer, prosecutors said.

The victims, who have two sons, were reported missing April 2 by a relative just two days after they were last seen inside their Old Brookville home — which they bought with $3.8 million in cash after moving here from China in 2022.

The investigation into their troubling disappearance is ongoing, Nassau County Police said Tuesday.  

The raid of their bank accounts took place between June and August — with hundreds of thousands of dollars methodically moved at a time, federal prosecutors alleged.

Around June 30, $890,000 was drained from one of the victim’s bank accounts into Wu’s, and then another $500,000 was moved the next day, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said.

That same day, July 1, another $190,000 was shuffled from Wu’s account to another account of a company associated with the suspect, according to a criminal complaint.

About $700,000 was then pulled from Wu’s account through a cashier’s check.

The second victim was also targeted when $860,000 was transferred from their bank account to another account July 2, leading up to $418,500 later being withdrawn, the complaint alleged.

Then July 8, $630,000 more was taken from the first victim’s account and shoveled into Wu’s, the complaint said. Two days later, $435,000 was transferred from Wu’s account to an account associated with an unspecified corporate entity.

Both victims were added to Wu’s account at some point, with it being freshly listed as “joint with rights of survivorship,” according to the complaint.

Surveillance footage shows Wu inside two Flushing, Queens, bank branches where some of the transactions took place, while Wang was spotted joining her once, authorities said.

Prosecutors also alleged that Wang has an alleged history of trying to steal others’ identities, including involving accounts connected to the one of the two same Flushing bank branches.

He was previously flagged at a TSA checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport with numerous cell phones, IDs and credit cards with different names on them in December 2023, the complaint said.

Wu was arrested in Texas on Thursday and remains in custody with an Immigration and Customs detainer slapped on her. Her immigration status is unclear. Wang was cuffed in California the same day and released on bond.

The fraud charges leveled against the pair only deepened the mystery swirling around the disappearance of Fan and Zwang.

The couple ate dinner with their sons, 12 and 20, along with some of the younger child’s friends the night before the brothers went on a trip to the Catskills the next morning, the family’s lawyer told Newsday earlier this year.

The lawyer, John Carman, who was hired by the older son when his parents went missing, did not respond to a Post request for comment.

The suspects did not have a lawyer listed in documents.

The missing couple’s two children have since reportedly moved back to China. 

“The sons are grateful for the efforts of law enforcement tracking down these sophisticated criminals,” Carman told Newsday.

Wu and Wang are expected to appear in federal court in Central Islip on Thursday afternoon.