MINNEAPOLIS – A Maple Grove businessman was indicted on charge that he filed a fraudulent loan application for $562,000 through the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Aditya Raj Sharma, 47, of Maple Grove was accused claiming he was chief executive of a cloud computing company that supposedly was in operation in mid-February with almost 30 employees. The charge said the corporation actually wasn’t created until May, three months later. Allegedly Shama fabricated his application for the loan, which was forgivable. What prosecutors say he did with the money? After going into a personal bank account, $5,000 of loan for a down payment on a $64,000 swimming pool.
