A court in the United States has ordered the extradition of Alex Ogunshakin, for allegedly defrauding $6 million.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, declared him and five other Nigerians wanted for their involvement in business email compromise, BEC, schemes resulting in over $6 million in losses in June 2020.
The FBI had initially posted pictures of the six culprits on its X (Twitter) account, describing them as cyber most wanted.
Others included as wanted were Uzuh Richard, Felix Okpoh, Micheal Olorunyomi, Benson Nnamdi, and Abiola Kayode.
Ogunshaki allegedly provided the bank accounts used to receive fraudulent wire transfers and also sending mails, soliciting for funds.
Meanwhile, he was charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud in the US federal court in Nebraska, 2019.
Subsequently, a federal warrant was issued for his arrest as the offense was comitted from January 2015 to September 2016.
However, in May 2020, the US government asked the Nigerian government to extradite Ogunshakin over the alleged fraud.
The suspect has been arrested and was recently extradited to the US where he appeared before judge Michael Nelson, on September 29.
Prior to the conclusion of the trial, the judge mandated that Ogunshakin remain in custody.
“Adewale Aniyeloye, one of the fraudsters sending the spoofed e-mails to the target business, was sentenced in February 2019 to 96 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,570,938.05 in restitution,” the statement reads.
“Pelumi Fawehinimi, a bank account facilitator, was sentenced in March 2019 to 72 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,014,159.60 in restitution.
“Onome Ijomone, a romance scammer, was sentenced in January 2020 to 60 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $508,934.40 in restitution after his successful extradition from Poland. Other co-conspirators remain at large”, the statement read.
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