US Court Jails Nigerian, others over involvement in $2.6m wire fraud
A Nigerian, Okechukwu Iwuji, alongside two others, has been convicted and jailed for advance fee and money laundering scheme involving over two million dollars.
Attorney from the US Attorney’s Office, Guam, Shawn Anderson, announced that thirty eight-year-old Iwuji and the other convicts fraudulently obtained approximately $2.6 by inducing Guam-based investors to pay bogus fees for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
They were on Tuesday and Thursday sentenced for their crimes. Iwuji, who previously resided in Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 45 months imprisonment; three years supervised release, ordered to pay $470 in restitution, a $100 mandatory assessment fee, and a $475,000 forfeiture money judgment, after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud.
