A 33-year-old Nigerian man, Edikan Adiakpan, has been arrested in the United States over his alleged role in a large-scale business email compromise and money laundering scheme.
The scheme allegedly defrauded organisations across eight states, including a California-based medical research group focused on developing treatments for US military veterans.
This was contained in a press release posted on the US Department of Justice’s website on Thursday.
The arrest was announced by the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, Nicholas J. Ganjei, who said Adiakpan is expected to make his initial court appearance before Magistrate Judge Peter Bray in Houston.
Adiakpan was named in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on June 11, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmission business.
According to the US Department of Justice, Adiakpan and his co-conspirators carried out the fraud in 2021 by sending spoofed emails that impersonated legitimate vendors.
“They were allegedly tricked into sending payments to bank accounts the fraudsters controlled instead of the actual suppliers.
“The charges further allege the conspirators laundered the funds by quickly transferring the money between multiple bank accounts they controlled. They then allegedly converted the funds into cashier’s checks. Adiakpan allegedly cashed the checks and kept a percentage as a fee,” the statement read.
Another Nigerian, 26-year-old Ayobami Omoniyi, had earlier been charged in connection with the same scheme.
He is currently awaiting sentencing before U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen.
“If convicted, Adiakpan faces up to 20 years in federal prison on the conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy charges and up to five years for the illegal money transmitting.
“Each conviction carries a possible $250,000 maximum fine,” the statement added.
The investigation was carried out by the FBI’s Houston field office, its Bryan Resident Agency, and the IRS Criminal Investigation unit.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Belinda Beek and Christine Lu.
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Why this very man will not detected of fraud yes they’ve reasons to detected him looking sport car LAMBORGHINI well in adaged monkey go hanged himself can’t he come home use that millions of dollars he spent on buying cars , you gonna behaved like white families they gonna gun you down no others work you doing you feeling fined this is time to know his sources of income okay they are money like that you gonna saved money through banks money that’s not belonged to sources America gonna detected you out there this europ connection same familiars . All types Nigerians behaved America shamed on them pls