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Youths are daily being socialised to corruption and fraud by those holding public offices; they see how the systems provide soft landing for the fraudulent persons (public or private)
By Oludayo Tade
Twelve months ago, Ramoni Abbas (37 years) popular known as ‘Hushpuppi’ was arrested in Dubai for alleged money laundering from business email compromise fraud and other scams which targeted firms, and an English premier league. He made a total sum of $435million after defrauding 1,926,400 victims. A year after, Abidemi Rufai (also known as ‘Sandy Tang’), a Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, was also arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, at John F Kennedy Airport, New York over criminal complaint of defrauding Washington State Employment Security Department of $350,000 (N144,375,000).
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A Nigerian man has admitted taking part in a conspiracy to loot both Washington state’s employment security department and state of Pennsylvania unemployment insurance funds.
Esogie Osawaru, 27, also known as Milk Anthony, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, unlawful monetary transactions and for defrauding victims using various online scams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He has agreed to forfeit up to $1.3 million in assets he may own that are the proceeds from unemployment insurance fraud schemes and various other online scams, which saw him fleece victims in online romance schemes, according to court records filed in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.