UNION CITY – The co-owners of a Bay Area private security company will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to felony wage theft and insurance premium fraud, prosecutors said.

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Ferooz and Alejandra Nangeyali, the proprietors of Union City-based Alfa Private Security, must pay $210,652 to workers they defrauded and $80,872 to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

To date, prosecutors have located 37 of the 81 individuals identified as victims of wage theft.

The case was jointly investigated by the California Department of Insurance and the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, in conjunction with the district attorney’s office.

During the four-year probe, prosec

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