U.S. court dismisses Obinwanne Okeke’s appeal, 10 years jail term stays
The court dismissed the appeal after granting Mr Okeke’s motion to withdraw it. 4 min read
Wire fraud convict, Obinwanne Okeke, widely known as Invictus Obi, has lost the appeal he filed against his years’ imprisonment.
The U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal after it was voluntarily withdrawn by the convict.
The 33-year-old Nigerian, who was arrested in the U.S. on August 6, 2019, had pleaded guilty to the offence of conspiracy to commit wire fraud last year June.
U.S. authorities said victims lost nearly $11million to the large-scale fraud perpetrated through global business email and computer hacking schemes between 2015 and 2019.
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Fraud convict, Obinwanne Okeke, more popularly known as Invictus Obi, has appealed against his recent sentence to10 years’ imprisonment by a U.S. court.
The 33-year-old Nigerian, who was arrested in the U.S. on August 6, 2019, pleaded guilty to the offence of conspiracy to commit wire fraud last year June.
U.S. authorities said victims lost nearly $11 million (about N4 billion) to the large-scale fraud perpetrated through global business email and computer hacking schemes between 2015 and 2019 and this earned him a 10 year sentence by a court in the Eastern District of Virginia on February 16.
The judge also ordered him to restitute about $10.7 million proceeds of his fraud to the U.S. government.