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FBI Arrests Abiola Kayode Who Fled Nigeria To Ghana After $6 Million Scam (44525 Views)

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mairogo: 12:28pm On Dec 13, 2024
FBI nabs most-wanted fraudster Abiola Kayode who fled Nigeria to Ghana after $6 million business email racket

United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced the extradition of Abiola Kayode, 37, of Nigeria, to the District of Nebraska on a Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud Indictment, filed in August 2019 in Omaha, Nebraska.

In April 2023, law enforcement authorities in the Republic of Ghana arrested Kayode pursuant to a U.S. request for his extradition. Ghanaian authorities ultimately granted this request and surrendered Kayode to FBI special agents who brought him to the District of Nebraska. Kayode had an initial appearance on the Indictment on December 11, 2024. United States Magistrate Judge Michael D. Nelson ordered Kayode remain detained pending trial.

Kayode, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List, is alleged to have participated in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme from January 2015 to September 2016. The BEC scheme defrauded businesses in the District of Nebraska and elsewhere of more than $6 million.

According to the indictment, Kayode’s co-conspirators posed as the chief executive officer, president, owner, or other executive of the targeted company. Using e-mail s spoofed to make it appear as though they were from the company’s true business executive, Kayode’s co-conspirators directed business employees or recipients of the e-mail to complete wire transfers. The business employees, believing the requests were legitimate, complied with the wire transfer requests and wired the money as instructed by Kayode’s co-conspirators.

Some of Kayode’s co-conspirators have already been convicted and sentenced. 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. Pelumi Fawehinimi, a bank 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. Alex Ogunshakin, a co-conspirator who provided bank s for the scheme, was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment in October 2024 after his successful extradition from Nigeria.
Four years ago, we identified six Nigerian nationals suspected of defrauding individual victims and businesses in Nebraska and other states of millions of dollars,” said FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel. “Today, Abiola Kayode is the second of those co-conspirators to be extradited to stand trial in Nebraska. Our message to the remaining four co-conspirators; we are coming for you. Dismantling cyber-criminal groups that victimize U.S. citizens is a priority for the FBI, DOJ, and our international law enforcement partners. The FBI, working together with our partners in Ghana, particularly the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice, the Ghana Police Service – INTERPOL, and the Ghana Immigration Service, will continue to pursue and bring to justice criminals who engage in Business Email Compromise and other fraud schemes.”

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in securing Kayode’s extradition.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
https://gazettengr.com/fbi-nabs-most-wanted-fraudster-abiola-kayode-who-fled-nigeria-to-ghana-after-6-million-business-email-racket/

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Mindlog: 12:32pm On Dec 13, 2024
Nice one.....one down.

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papiSNEH(m): 12:36pm On Dec 13, 2024
Set awon huspuppi ati woody

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CyrusVI(m): 12:36pm On Dec 13, 2024
$6milli scam shocked

Go Hushy in the dungeon

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Mugu44: 12:41pm On Dec 13, 2024

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Zooposki(f): 12:43pm On Dec 13, 2024
Yorubas and 419 are like 5 and 6. Na dem spoil our global image with their yahoo yahoo scams.

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jmoore(m): 12:49pm On Dec 13, 2024
CyrusVI:
$6milli scam shocked

Go Hushy in the dungeon

When you have no clue that your hypocrisy is open on the forum, it shows how low your IQ is.

Is it no longer poto poto region?

Stigma no go follow am too?

Babablu bulabu.

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nnaetobi(m): 1:21pm On Dec 13, 2024
Ndi ofe

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csamii: 3:19pm On Dec 13, 2024
CyrusVI:
$6milli scam shocked

Go Hushy in the dungeon

There are good ambassadors of the country and there's this guy from skull miners area.


When this country split, everybody go dey answer hin papa name. Na that time stigma go follow those ones and honor go follow the rest

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Baronthecelebri: 4:00pm On Dec 13, 2024
Hmmmmm, wahala

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gsmphoneseller: 7:10pm On Dec 13, 2024
Abiola Kayode



YoruBad

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mairogo: 7:14pm On Dec 13, 2024
Zooposki:
Yorubas and 419 are like 5 and 6. Na dem spoil our global image with their yahoo yahoo scams.

See how they have avoided this thread, just mention IPOB, Obi or the South East and they will start foaming in the mouth.

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Ekaka14: 8:42pm On Dec 13, 2024
Not a single picture of the guy

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TimiofAbuja: 10:06pm On Dec 13, 2024
Say no to fraud.....kayode no go hear......he don carry free flight go US

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YoungLionken(m): 10:07pm On Dec 13, 2024
Nigerians sha! Oh boy shocked! $6metres? Na where these ones dey bomb dey catch clients sef🤔??.

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rinzaugustine: 10:07pm On Dec 13, 2024
Sad

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Dshocker(m): 10:08pm On Dec 13, 2024
We know the tribe and owners of scam in Nigeria, giving us bad names in the international place.

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saddler: 10:10pm On Dec 13, 2024
lipsrsealed
NothingDoMe: 10:11pm On Dec 13, 2024
They finally caught the guy!

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Ibehchizzy: 10:11pm On Dec 13, 2024
CyrusVI:
$6milli scam shocked

Go Hushy in the dungeon
hypocrite bstrd this one no be ambassador of Yoruba region abi?

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Helpfromabove1(m): 10:11pm On Dec 13, 2024
Well done Ghana

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Ezmans: 10:11pm On Dec 13, 2024
mairogo:


See how they have avoided this thread, just mention IPOB, Obi or the South East and they will start foaming in the mouth.
if not this people Nigerians will go UK without visa

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sambright2012: 10:13pm On Dec 13, 2024
Yoruba people self

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DuttyChuks: 10:13pm On Dec 13, 2024
The wàste no dey disappoint. Them dey always represent wella both home and abroad.

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haybhi1(m): 10:13pm On Dec 13, 2024
Omo na wa o, yahoo scammers everywhere... your mates dey do cbex, you dey do scam

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jiz: 10:14pm On Dec 13, 2024
Good move

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jiz: 10:14pm On Dec 13, 2024
Trash
Zooposki:
Yorubas and 419 are like 5 and 6. Na dem spoil our global image with their yahoo yahoo scams.

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Finestgurlie(f): 10:15pm On Dec 13, 2024
another yellub biggest export

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Flangelo12: 10:15pm On Dec 13, 2024
grin
Segzy19: 10:15pm On Dec 13, 2024
Good job!
Let him do the time....

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Exceed15: 10:16pm On Dec 13, 2024
Life without peace

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