US court sentences Anambra LG chairman to five years imprisonment for $3.5m romance scam

Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, has been sentenced to five years in prison in the United States for his scheme to steal some $3.5 million from eight different victims via an online romance scam. The 42-year-old Nigerian national, Nwadialo was arrested at an airport in Texas upon his […]

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Two Nigerians face 50 years imprisonment each over $100m scam in US

Two Nigerian men, Akinade Raheem and Abayomi Eletu, are facing 50 years in prison each for an alleged multiple tax fraud scheme involving stolen identities to steal more than $100m from the Internal Revenue Service in the United States. Department of Justice (DoJ) in a statement on Wednesday, said Raheem and Eletu allegedly conspired with […]

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Nigerian man gets eight years imprisonment for $6m inheritance scam in US

A court in United States has sentenced a Nigerian national, Tochukwu Albert Nnebocha, to 97 months’ imprisonment for participating in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme that targeted elderly and vulnerable Americans. The statement published on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website on Friday said: “a Nigerian National was sentenced today to more than eight […]

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