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Olalekan Jacob Ponle, popularly known as Woodberry, was nabbed through details accessed from his WhatsApp, iPhone and Bitcoin transactions, court documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES reveal. Mr Ponle, alongside Ramoni Igbalode, also known as Hushpuppi, was arrested in the United Arab Emirate on June 10 for multiple fraud charges after a raid by operatives of the …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi Popular internet celebrity hushpuppi, whose real name Ramon Abbas, the Dubai-based Nigerian arrested last month for alleged Internet fraud, has secured the service of a top criminal defence attorney in Chicago. According to premium times, Mr Abbas on Monday retained Gal Pissetzky, a senior partner at Chicago law firm Pissetzky & Berliner, to …

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Obinwanne Okeke, the Nigerian ‘businessman’ arrested in the United States last August for fraud, has admitted to American authorities that his participation in the fraudulent schemes for which he has pleaded guilty “was undertaken knowingly, intentionally and unlawfully and not as a result of an accident, mistake or other innocent reason.” Mr Okeke, who was …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the final siezure of N280,555,010 traced to  Obinwanne Okeke also known as Invictus Obi, to the Nigerian Government. The order came on Thursday following an ex-parte order by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The anti-graft agency had said that the money was …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi In an affidavit filed in support of the application, EFCC investigator, Ariyo Muritala, said the commission assigned him and others to investigate a request for information on Okeke and three others Following his arrest and subsequent detention in the US for alleged cyber crime, The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday has …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi Following his arrest on august 6, Obinwanne Okeke, the Nigerian young ‘businessman’ widely known as invictus obi, for $11 million fraud, reports reaching us is that he could spend up to 30 years in jail if convicted. Mr Okeke was charged with two counts of computer fraud and wire fraud, which carry a …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi The dust is still yet to settle over the list released by the FBI last week Thursday where 80 Nigerians were indicted for wire fraud. In her own way of reacting, The United States has increased the cost of visa application for Nigerians. The US Consulate announced this in a statement issued on …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi Following the FBI list that was released last week, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that it has recovered $314,000 and N373m ( N486m in all) from suspects in connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into the list of nearly 80 Nigerians indicted for fraud. According to The acting …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi One of the persons on the FBI’s 77-man list of suspected Nigerian fraudsters, Chika Odionyenma, was appointed into the inauguration committee of Emeka Ihedioha, governor of Imo state. The FBI list over 77 Nigerians that were under investigation in connection with one of the largest scams in US history. Videos of some of …

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Gbeleyi Abayomi Following the indictment of 77 Nigerians by the United States (U.S.) Department of Justice, in connection with massive fraud and money laundering, Western Union in Texas, the state with the largest Nigerian population in the U.S., may have blocked all money transfers to Nigeria, according to a report. The report added that the …