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BALTIMORE, USA â A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging three men on the federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to allegedly sell purported COVID-19 vaccines. The criminal complaint was filed on February 9, 2021, and was unsealed today upon the defendants arrests. Charged in the criminal complaint are: Olakitan Oluwalade ( Olaki ), age 22, of Windsor Mill, Maryland; Olaki s cousin, Odunayo Baba Oluwalade ( Baba ), age 25, of Windsor Mill; and Kelly Lamont Williams, age 22, of Owings Mills, Maryland.
The criminal complaint was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur; Special Agent in Charge James R. Mancuso of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore; Special Agent in Charge Mark S. McCormack of the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Criminal Investigations Metro Washington Field Office; Postal Inspector in Charge Peter
Three Charged Over Fraudulent Vaccine Website
Three men in Baltimore County have been accused of impersonating Massachusetts pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna to sell fake COVID-19 vaccines.
Twenty-two-year-old Owings Mills resident Kelly Lamont Williams, together with cousins and Windsor Mill residents 22-year-old Olakitan Oluwalade and 25-year-old Odunayo Baba Oluwalade, also known as Olaki and Baba respectively, were arrested on February 11.
A criminal complaint unsealed yesterday accuses the trio of copying the source code of the genuine Moderna website (modernatx.com) and using it to create a similar-looking spoof website, modernatx.shop.
A vaccine (mRNA-1273) created by Moderna was authorized on December 19, 2020, by the FDA for emergency use in the United States to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older. Via the fraudulent site, the three men allegedly sold hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines at $3