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...

COURT JAILS INTERNET FRAUDSTER ONE YEAR IN LAGOS. (PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE

 


The Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC, on Friday, January 21, 2022, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Raji Olasunkanmi to one year imprisonment for possession of fraudulent documents used to perpetrate internet fraud. He was convicted by Justice Mojisola Dada of  the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. 

Operatives of the Commission, acting on the intelligence,  had arrested him along with some other suspected internet fraudsters on August 13, 2021 around the Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos.

Following further investigation, he was brought to court and charged with one-count amended charge bordering on possession of fraudulent documents. He pleaded "guilty" to the amended charge. 


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