By City News Service
Apr 27, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles man and his Nigeria-based younger brother face federal charges for allegedly working to con women out of cash in online dating scams and laundering the money through U.S. banks, federal prosecutors said today.
Kinston Osagie, 53, and his sibling, Roland Ighiwiyisi, 40, are charged with multiple counts of money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office in San Francisco.
Osagie allegedly opened at least 18 different U.S. bank accounts between January 2015 and August which took in about $6 million in cash, check and wire deposits. Of that amount, the indictment alleges $3 million is traceable primarily to victims of romance fraud.
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According to the U.S. Attorney s Office, 53-year-old Kinston Osagie of Los Angeles and his Nigerian-based brother Roland Ighiwiyisi, 40, scammed the women and then laundered the money through U.S. banks. (Shutterstock)
LOS ANGELES, CA A Los Angeles man and his brother used online dating sites to con women looking for love out of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors alleged Monday.
According to the U.S. Attorney s Office, 53-year-old Kinston Osagie of Los Angeles and his Nigerian-based brother Roland Ighiwiyisi, 40, scammed the women and then laundered the money through U.S. banks.
Osagie allegedly opened at least 18 different U.S. bank accounts between January 2015 and August which took in about $6 million in cash, check and wire deposits. Of that amount, the indictment alleges $3 million is traceable primarily to victims of romance fraud.
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Also arrested were his wife and son while his two houses were demolished by the security operatives.
The State Government Security outfit, “Operation Akpakwu” carried out the arrest and demolition in the early hours of Monday in Akpabuyo
“His two houses were demolished by the security operatives, his shrine where kidnappers and militants were being fortified at Akpabuyo was also destroyed,” our source revealed.
Operation Akpakwu, however, disclosed that the Chief confessed that his son was involved in high profile kidnapping in Akpabuyo.
Also, the building in Plot 24c in Satellite Town Calabar, where a kidnapped victim was released a few months ago was also demolished.
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Two Nigerian nationals, Kinston Osagie, 53, and Roland Ighiwiyisi, 40, were on Monday, charged before a United States District Court to face a federal indictment on alleged conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Osagie, based in Los Angeles, and his sibling, Ighiwiyisi also known as Roland Osagie, based in Nigeria were alleged to have conspired to launder proceeds obtained from victims of wire fraud.
The prosecution, according to the indictment filed and obtained, is the result of an investigation by the United States Secret Service, the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mohit Gourisaria revealed.
The duo were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h), while Osagie was in another four counts charged for violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1957.
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