Tag: COVID-19 fraud

Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede, jailed four years in US over $4.2m COVID-19 fraud

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Oba Joseph Oloyede, the Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Nigeria, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the United States. The monarch, 62, who holds dual U.S. and Nigerian citizenship and resides in Medina, Ohio, was on August 26 handed 56 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Christopher A. […]

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US court jails Nigerian pastor as Osun monarch awaits sentencing over COVID-19 fraud

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A United States District Court has sentenced a Nigerian pastor, Edward Oluwasanmi, to 27 months’ imprisonment for COVID-19 relief fund fraud. His friend, the Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede, also forfeited his property to the US government while awaiting the court judgement slated for August 1. Oluwasanmi and Oba Oloyede were arrested in early […]

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