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12166299892?profile=originalA United States District Court in Charlotte, North Carolina has sentenced a Nigerian, Ugochukwu Enwerem, aka Joseph Smith, to nine years imprisonment on one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and 14 counts of wire fraud.

The US Justice Department said in a statement posted on its website on Sunday said District Judge Graham Mullen also ordered Enwerem to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. In addition, Enwerem was ordered to forfeit $9,453,815 (N1,447,804,538.57) and to pay restitution in the same amount, jointly and severally with fellow Nigerian and co-defendant, Kent Okojie.
Enwerem was found guilty in March 2010 by a federal jury in the Western District of North Carolina on the 15 counts, the statement said. In September 2009, his co-accused pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud and was sentenced to 72 months in prison in November...
Okojie and Enwerem, who resided in the Netherlands, were originally charged in a June 2007 complaint.
They were subsequently extradited to the US from The Netherlands, where they had been in custody on Dutch charges.
The statement also contained excerpts from court documents.
It said, "Evidence at trial showed that between at least August 25, 2004 and April 23, 2007, Enwerem and his co-conspirators solicited individuals in the United States, Europe and Australia by sending spam e-mails informing potential victims that they had either won a foreign lottery, inherited a large sum of money from a long lost relative, or were eligible to recover outstanding construction contract payments.
"When individuals responded to the e-mails, the defendants, posing as lawyers, bankers and European government officials, solicited fees from victims ostensibly to pay for things such as 'anti-terrorism certificates', 'EU bank clearances', 'anti-money laundering certificates', and legal fees in order to secure their purported lotto winnings, inheritance or contract payments."
The US Justice Department stated that Enwerem and Okojie instructed American victims "to wire funds, using Western Union and other money transfer services, to them and their designees in The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom...
"According to trial testimony, at least 18 US and international victims were defrauded of more than $9.5m during the period when Enwerem was a member of the conspiracy."
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The convict, Agorioge Yomi, 30, of Karu, a satellite community of the FCT, was on Tuesday sentenced by the court in Abuja, on two-count charges of giving false information and defamation of character. The magistrate, Habiba Bello, sentenced the accused after she pleaded guilty to the charges. The prosecutor, Simon Emmanuel, told the court that Mrs. Yomi had reported to the police on Dec. 20 that she boarded a bus with her 12-year-old daughter from Lugbe to Berger Junction.

Mr. Emmanuel said the convict had alleged that on the way the driver diverted to Gwarinpa Express roundabout and threw her out of the vehicle and kidnapped her daughter, Anuoluwapo Oladapo, but the police later found Yomi’s daughter ina hotel, where she had hidden her. The magistrate sentenced Mrs Yomi to five months in prison but gave her an option of paying N1,000 fine for the first offence and N1,500 for the second offence....

 

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Texas couple sentenced for enslaving widowed Nigerian mother of six, for nine years
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he was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a nanny for their newborn. If she came with them to Texas, they would help support her children financially, give her free room and board, and pay $100 a month, the woman says she was told.



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For a mother who couldn't read or write, lived in poverty and needed to buy her eldest daughter medication for sickle-cell anemia, it seemed like a desperately needed opportunity.

Instead, the woman alleges the couple – fellow Nigerians Emmanuel and Ngozi Nnaji – took her travel documents when she arrived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Dec. 11, 1997, and forced her to work 16 hours daily with no days off for nine years.

The couple monitored her calls to family in Nigeria, refused to let her return home, didn't pay her and failed to support her children as promised, authorities say. Emmanuel Nnaji also repeatedly raped her, according to a grand jury indictment handed up this week in Fort Worth.

Emmanuel and Ngozi Nnaji are charged with forced labor conspiracy, forced labor, harboring a domestic worker for financial gain, conspiracy to harbor for financial gain, document servitude and making false statements to federal agents. The indictment outlines the rape allegations as part of the forced labor conspiracy.

Attorneys for the couple did not immediately respond to messages Friday. A telephone listing for the Nnajis was disconnected.

Court documents show Ngozi Nnaji, 45, told investigators the woman, whom she knew from her native village, showed up at the couple's house in 1999 with a man named Charles. She ended up staying for seven years because Charles never came back. But the woman was not required to do any housework, Ngozi Nnaji told FBI agents.

Emmanuel Nnaji, 50, told agents the woman came to stay with them for two months in 1999, at the request of a relative. They allowed her to stay until she could "get on her feet." He also said she cared for one of his children in exchange for room and board but could "come and go as she pleased," according to a criminal complaint.

The woman, who The Associated Press is not naming because authorities say she is a victim of sexual assault, told investigators a starkly different story. She said she met Emmanuel Nnaji in 1996 while working as a nanny for his brother-in-law. Ngozi Nnaji's brother asked if she would go work for the couple in Texas and she agreed.

He then took her to the U.S. Embassy in Lagos and obtained a passport and visa for her in the name of Comfort Nnaji, court documents allege. Comfort is the name of Emmanuel Nnaji's mother, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The woman lived with the Nnajis first in their Irving apartment, then in their Arlington home, according to the complaint. After the couple had two more children, the woman cared for all three while also cooking and cleaning. She was not allowed to talk to anyone outside the home, according to the complaint.

Her family in Nigeria said they only occasionally received money, she told officials.

One day, the woman was able to hide in a closet and call her niece in Nigeria to tell her about her ordeal. The niece told a Nigerian priest who lived in Texas and was back home on vacation. He gave the niece his cell phone number and asked that she give it to her aunt, according to court documents.

The priest, identified in court documents as GU, returned to Texas in February 2006, established contact with the woman and helped plan her escape. On Feb. 24, 2006, the priest drove to Arlington, where the woman met him on a street corner and she fled in his car, the two told investigators.

It's unclear where the woman is now and the Justice Department won't disclose her location. The Nnajis each face up to 55 years in prison if convicted. Ngozi Nnaji faces deportation because she is a Nigerian citizen.
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THE Kenyan wife of a 9gerian fugitive fraudster was jailed for four years in Britain, on Wednesday, for the role she played in mortgage fraud



Ruth Ayinde-Azeez, 26, a care home assistant, who led a life of luxury thanks to an £8 million mortgage fraud, sobbed as she was sentenced, on Wednesday.

Isaac Matthews, 42, of Chatham, Kent, was sentenced to six years in jail.

Ruth Ayinde-Azeez lived in a six-bedroom mansion containing 12 plasma TVs and drove around in a top-of-the range Bentley and Land Rover.

She took lavish holidays in Dubai and the south of France, kept £1.6 million in her bank accounts and blew huge sums at upmarket bars and restaurants.

But her lifestyle was funded by crime, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Her husband, Victor, a fraudster who is on the run overseas, led a mortgage con gang which plundered nearly £6 million from high street banks in just six weeks using a network of front companies and crooked solicitors.

The court heard that Ruth Ayinde-Azeez was sucked into the criminal world of her husband and came to enjoy the trappings of excessive wealth.

The Kenyan national laundered £1.25 million and was jailed, on Wednesday, for four years for her part in the fraud.

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Court jails banker for stealing from the dead From Tunde Oyedoyin, London A 35-year old banker, who systematically stole £32,200 from the dormant account of the late Anthony Fatayi - Williams, was jailed for two years at the Cambridge Crown Cour, last Thursday. advertisement 26-year old Fatayi-Williams, a nephew of former Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, was one of the victims killed in the blast in Tavistock Square (near Euston Station), when terrorists attacked London on July 7, 2005. During the trial, the Court heard how Paul Walsh, who worked at the Market Hill branch of HSBC in Cambridge, used a dummy card to access the account after secretly increasing the dead victim's £14,940 credit limit to £38,100. In all, Walsh made 102 transactions before his bosses found out. To hide his carefully crafted plans, Walsh, who admitted false accounting, fraud and theft, redirected correspondence from Fatayi-Williams' accounts to himself, through the bank. But his employers sacked the professional studies officer in 2007, after his bosses found out. The court held that there had been more than a year's delay in issuing the death certificate; hence, the account had not been closed by November 2006. Walsh exploited this delay, plundered the account until his bosses found out in 2007, and subsequently sacked him. Sentencing him, Judge Jonathan Haworth said: "Clearly you were a trusted employee of the bank and are guilty of a gross breach of that trust." Walsh did not limit his activities to Fatayi -Williams, he also hacked into another dormant account, stealing £750
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62year old Woman jailed over N17.5m fraud

A 62-year-old woman, Grace Iroro, has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for conspiring with others to dupe a banker, Wale Bolorunduro, to the tune of N17.5 million.



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She was found guilty by Justice Morenike Obadina of Ikeja High Court on all three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and attempt to obtain by false pretences preferred against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

In 2006, the convict and her accomplices, Ayo Disu and Udoh Nnaji, who were still at large, approached Mr. Bolorunduro, who was then a manager with a new generation bank and offered to sell to him a plot of land at Lekki Phase Two for the sum of N17.5 million.

To make the deal appear genuine, they presented a forged Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of the land bearing the name of the owner of the property, Mr. Samuel Sosanya.

The victim was invited to the 'office' of the fraudsters on Lagos Island where Iroro posed as Mrs Sosanya, the wife of the owner of the land, while Disu assumed the identity of Mr Sosanya, the owner.

The convict had, since last Thursday, begun her jail term.
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The Spanish surgeon who performed liposuction operation that led to the death of former first lady, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, has been jailed for one year for involuntary homicide by a tribunal in Malaga, Spain. The tribunal has also suspended the doctor identified simply as AMM from practising medicine for three years, stating that “he lacked a serious commitment and carefulness required by his profession”. The doctor and his insurers were equally told to indemnify the son of the deceased to the tune of €120,000. At a trial held in July, the prosecutor had wanted a sentence of two years in prison and ban from exercising his profession for five years. Stella Obasanjo, 59, was recovering from a routine liposuction at the Molding Clinic in the posh resort of Marbella, when her condition deteriorated suddenly a few days later. She fell unconscious and the doctors could not revive her. At the trial, the doctor had denied responsibility, asserting that the intervention and post-operative had been carried out “perfectly normal” and that the age of the patient, who suffered from hypertension and mild asthma, posed no danger to the exercise. The court ruled instead that the process used to extract fat from the patient had been performed by mistake in her abdominal cavity, which had caused five incisions in the liver and colon of the patient. The blood loss and internal injuries “could have been handled without problems” if they had been detected in time, the court noted. During the trial, a Spanish forensic scientist declared that her death was avoidable had suitable treatment been administered during the fateful liposuction. He was addressing a Spanish court conducting a trial on the death of the first lady in the country in 2005. The police physician pointed out that the patient had perforations in her liver and abdomen. According to him, the quantity of liquids administered on her after an intervention was "insufficient" and there were symptoms of a shock. The expert indicated that the evidence of shock could have been detected "hours earlier" and with a blood test and an ultrasound scan it would have been possible for the doctor to detect the symptoms of a shock. He said the doctor could have detected these complications approximately 10 hours before her death. His opinion was shared by the forensic scientist brought in to serve as an expert witness. On the contrary, four other experts told the court a blood test could not have contributed much and insisted that the symptoms were habitual and that the progression was "normal" until the night of the day before the death. Nevertheless, one of the experts recognised that “a transfer at this hour could have led to an improvement of the patient’s health”. He pointed out that the blood loss (half a litre of blood) does not produce a hemorrhagic shock. On the other hand, one of the doctors who attended to the patient said while being moved to another clinic, he discovered that the woman became unconscious, had no pulse and at this moment the accused and he tried to revive her and “I observed a blinking”. The district attorney maintained his initial accusation of a crime of imprudent murder, for which it requests the accused who is a specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery to be imprisoned for two years and given five years disqualification for the death of Stella who came to the clinic of Marbella for abdomen reduction on October 20, 2005. For the public prosecutor, the accused committed "a heap of negligence", since "it was not diagnosed appropriately". The transfer of the patient to another hospital was done late. This indicated that although he did not have intention of causing the incisions in the vital organs neither did he wish her to become "unconscious", this does not suppose that there is minor gravity in the facts. He said that the accused took "decisions completely opposite to those that he would have taken and, there was lack of follow up”. According to him, the accused displayed lack of analytical strength, apathy and lack of interest for the patient. The defender asked for the acquittal of the accused and emphasised the declarations of the doctor’s co-workers in the clinic who said they made sure some intervention took place in a normal way. The doctor maintained that in spite of the age of the woman (59) and some occasional asthma, the risk for this type of interventions was catalogued as “I set sail”. Also, it indicated that the operation, which lasted three hours, developed "just as others that it had done until this baneful day and those that I have done later". On July 10, the state criminal prosecution case against a plastic surgeon from the Molding Clinic in Marbella started. At the court, the accused claimed that there was absolutely no evidence of any complications during the procedure nor during the post-op, and described how everything went normally until the early hours of the day after the operation. Stella, the wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, died on October 23, 2005. She was born in November 23, 1945. Born Stella Abebe, she met her husband when he was a military officer. She became famous not only for being the first lady but also for being a political activist in her own right, supporting such causes as women's liberation and youths as leaders of tomorrow. Stella established a non-governmental organisation, Child Care Trust, to take care of the underprivileged, the motherless and physically and mentally retarded children, with a focus on girls. According to her, these groups of underprivileged children are usually neglected and they were often treated as if they were useless and seen as an affliction on their parents. The former first lady was once quoted as saying: “Many of the underprivileged children if given the right care and love are capable of doing many positive things. They want to be appreciated. They do not see themselves as different from any other person.” She died weeks to her 60th birthday, after experiencing complications in a routine cosmetic surgery. The news came on the same day a Nigerian plane carrying 117 passengers and crew crashed, leaving no survivors.
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Nigerian-born British woman, Samantha Orobator, 20, jailed for life in Laos, Vietnam, for smuggling drugs, has confessed that a fellow British prisoner, John Watson, 47, is the father of her unborn child. This is coming against the backdrop of frantic diplomatic efforts by the British authorities to ensure quick transfer of pregnant Orobator to the UK, to serve her sentence, as she gets into the third trimester stage in her pregnancy. Reliable sources have also confirmed that Watson, who is also serving a life sentence for drug smuggling and had agreed to father her baby to save her from death sentence, is also being transferred to serve his remaining sentence in UK jail. Orobator, last Wednesday, pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle heroin out of the country, but her death sentence was commuted because she is pregnant. Orobator had been held in Phonthong since she was arrested at Wattay International Airport on August 5, 2008, with 1.5lb (680g) of heroin, and reportedly conceived last December, claiming the father was a Buddhist monk, and later said she had inseminated herself using Watson's sperm. A syringe was found among her belongings. There is, however, palpable fear that Orobator may not be transferred to the UK before her pregnancy reaches term. Although the UK and Laos signed a prisoner transfer agreement last month, it does not come into effect immediately, so she may end up having the baby in Laotian jail. It is gathered however, that she is being visited by medical team to ascertain her state of health and fitness, preparatory to a possible flight home. She has been reported to have expressed her worries that the prison diet will harm her baby and had been described by her mother, Jane, as "very fragile." Caroline Morten, of Human Rights group Reprieve, said: "she's just into her third trimester now and needs to be given a doctor's approval to fly, but we are hoping to get her back in a week. At the moment, we don't want to talk too much about what's going on, but we are optimistic." Confirming the repatriation, a spokesman from the Foreign Office said, "we are working on the goodwill of the Laotian government to repatriate Ms Orobator as soon as possible and Mr Watson would of course benefit from that too, in making an application." Watson was arrested in 2003 and given a life sentence in 2006. His health has deteriorated in jail and he is said to suffer from depression. He has been denied visits from anyone except officials from the Australian embassy, who are able to meet him once a month, and he is able to send occasional emails home. The UK has no consulate in Laos. "I know it sounds like an old cliche," Watson said last year to the Foreign Prisoner Support Service, an online campaigning group based in Australia, "but honestly, being in here, I do truly believe now that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." Meanwhile, following the new development, Watson is facing sanctions in prison as his mobile phone had been confiscated by officials at the squalid Phonthong prison in Vientiane, where the pair are being held He could face further sanctions from the authorities if he was proven to have helped Orobator.
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A Nigerian man, Edward Nwajagu, shot in United States four years ago, because he is black, lay on life support with a bullet in his skull Friday as the shooter was sentenced to 107 years to life in prison. Nwajagu’s wife and brother in Nigeria want to visit him but have been unable to enter the United States, said cousin Clement Onwuka, who spoke weekend. “His life had been shattered, his ability to make a living, his ability to enjoy life, ended the day he was shot,” Onwuka told the court softly at the sentencing Friday. Onwuka, who lives in Oklahoma, visited his cousin in the hospital there Wednesday. “The whole family depended on Edward,” he said. Nwajagu immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. In August 2005, he came to Southern California for a conference about helping underprivileged Nigerians and organizing a medical mission, said Charles Onunkwo, who organized the event “He’s barely clinging to life,” Onunkwo said. “He’s no longer coming back to be a useful member of society.” A group from the conference came to Riverside to visit a friend and stopped for gas at the Chevron station at University and Victoria avenues. The car pulled out of the gas station and was hit by bullets. Nwajagu opened the back door to check the damage and was hit in the head. As the driver pulled away, Nwajagu fell out of the car. Lying on University Avenue in a white embroidered caftan, blood ran out of his ears and mouth. He has been on life support since. The family paid to have him moved from a Riverside hospital to one near his home in Oklahoma City, believing it would be more familiar for him, Onwuka said. Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco used the crime as a reason for requesting an injunction to crack down on the East Side Rivas in 2007. The predominantly Latino gang has a history of attacking black people and referring to it as “snail hunting” in Riverside’s Eastside neighborhood, according to court documents. A Riverside County jury convicted David Anthony Rodriguez, 23, in March of attempted murder to promote a gang and cause a hate crime, as well as related felonies. Charles Onunkwo, who had organized the event that brought Edward Nwajagu to Southern California, wiped tears from his eyes as he narrated the story. The driver, Jose Enrique Martinez, 31, pleaded guilty to being an accessory and was sentenced in April to time served of one year and four months. On Friday, before Rodriguez was sentenced, his aunt Margo Alvarez cried as she told Judge Jean Pfeiffer Leonard that her nephew was innocent. “He’s a good man, a good nephew and a good father,” she said. Rodriguez’s attorney, Samuel Long, requested that his client be allowed to hug his 4-year-old daughter who has known her father only through glass booths while visiting him in jail. Leonard left the decision to deputies, who did not allow the hug. “I love you, Daddy,” the little girl said as she was carried out. He blew her a kiss.
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