A Nigerian man in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States whose lawyer said his criminal cohorts in Africa"took advantage" of him is headed to federal prison for his role in an identity theft scheme in which conspirators tricked 10 banks into sending duplicate debit and credit cards, then used them to buy merchandise for resale in Nigeria.US District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan sentenced Sulemon Arowokoko, 32, to 3½ years behind bars, Nigeria Abroad reports.
Arowokoko and another Nigerian man, Samiat Akinyemi, were indicted in 2020 on charges of conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.He admitted that he was part of a conspiracy to steal the identity of bank customers to get duplicate debit and credit cards in the customers' names. The criminal group then used the cards to buy more than $250,000 worth of gift cards, clothes, perfume, jewelry, and furniture. Arowokoko shipped some of the items back to Nigeria.
From the fall of 2017 to the summer of 2019, when the US Department of Homeland Security raided Arowokoko's house, he used the cards hundreds of times to buy merchandise."This is not a case where Arowokoko strayed into criminal conduct as the result of a momentary lapse in judgment," Mr. Bengel said."Instead, Arowokoko systematically broke the law for almost two full years.
Life in d western world is so hard ,Africa diaspora cannot afford to earn peanut so they go into crime but d same Africa diaspora will b on social media condemning d Nigeria nation , claiming we have so much hardship & poverty when they are facing more hardship & poverty abroad
Why won't POTUS put Nigeria on watchlist kos of all those criminals? He would have been handed a 10year jail term, jaare
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