NIGERIAN MAKES U.S MOST WANTED LIST OVER $1M FRAUD. (PHOTO).

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 Nigerian makes US Most Wanted List over $1m fraud A Nigerian, Onoriode Ezewu, has been named on the United States Department of Labour’s first-ever Most Wanted List over allegations of money laundering involving fraudulent unemployment benefit claims worth more than $1m. The department’s Office of Inspector General unveiled the list on its website on Wednesday, naming 16 fugitives wanted in cases involving alleged fraud, identity theft, money laundering, labour trafficking and other offences. According to the agency, the cases collectively involve more than $55m allegedly stolen from American taxpayers. Ezewu’s profile on the department’s website identifies him as wanted for concealment money laundering and states that he is believed to be residing in Nigeria. “In January 2021, Ezewu was charged with 15 counts of concealment money laundering tied to fraudulent UI and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims filed using stolen identities, in a scheme exceeding $1 million that also t...

HAJARA EGBRA FROM KOGI,ARRESTED FOR FRAUD.

•Hajara              45 Years old Hajara Egbara,a female staff of the Federal capital development Authority,Abuja was arrested for allegedly obtaining the sum of N25million under false pretence.DSP Ngozi,said the suspect was arrested following a written complaint by a female victim to the Commissioner of police,CP Tunde Ogunsakin,that the suspect sold a plot of land to her within Asokoro extension,Abuja,in 2009 for the sum of N25million.The victim alleged that she paid the money in three installments.She said she paid N10million each for the first two instalments and the suspect issued receipts with invoice Number 0073 and 0201 to her as proofs of purchase respectively,while the last payment of N5,million was made in 2012 through an old generation bank cheque number 0179593.The petitioner stated that she discovered that she had been duped by the suspect.When she was trying to process the documents of the land.When she confrounted the suspect,the suspect took her to another land as compensation and she use about N450,000 to fence off the new land.The petitioner reported the matter to the police when the suspect came back to tell her that the land did not belong to her again.Hajara later confessed to the police that she duped the woman that she gave N8.5 million to a developer,Mohammed Sodiq,now at large,while she took the balance for her services.She would be arraigned in court after the investigation of the matter.

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