LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – An associate of suspended Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez has been charged with money laundering by the same statewide prosecutors handling a case involving a multi-million-dollar illegal gambling operation.

Krishna Deokaran, 50, was booked into the Lake County jail on Oct. 6 and released the same day on a $20,000 bond, newly obtained court records show.

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Deokaran has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Specific details of Deokaran’s alleged crime have not yet been disclosed.

In previously released court papers, prosecutors accused the Orlando businessman of owning and operating several illegal gaming rooms in Lake, Sumter and Osceola counties.

Deokaran told investigators

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