U.S court gives Nigerian fraudster 4 year sentence

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 A federal court in the United States  has sentenced  a Nigerian, Ismaila Fafunmi, to 51 months (4 years) in federal prison.

Karen Caldwell, a US district judge, on Friday, convicted Fafunmi of money laundering for the profits of romance fraud and grant fraud schemes targeting senior adults.

According to federal law, Fafunmi must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence and will be under the supervision of the United States Probation Office for three years after his release.

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According to court filings, Fafunmi, an Indianapolis resident, was participating in a multi-layered network.

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In his plea agreement, he admitted that, beginning in June 2018, he and his Nigerian co-conspirators would create fake profiles on dating websites profiling American men, often military members, in order to defraud US-based victims of their money or by offering fake federal grants to senior citizens.

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According to the court documents, the condemned man and his co-conspirators were to set up a number of bank accounts, to reclaim their victims’ bogus payments they were equally paid cash and poster money while he was turning the rest into Nigerian transfers for his co-conspirators.

Fafunmi was convicted in August 2020 at his trial. The case was investigated and tried by the FBI as part of the Elder Justice Mission of the Department of Justice to discover and prosecute people facilitating financial exploitation for elderly folks.

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