{"id":351645,"date":"2025-01-07T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=351645"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:22:30","slug":"nigerian-man-bags-11-years-imprisonment-in-u-s-for-money-laundering-passport-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/07\/nigerian-man-bags-11-years-imprisonment-in-u-s-for-money-laundering-passport-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian man bags 11 years imprisonment in U.S. for money laundering, passport fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>In June 2024, Obiora pleaded guilty to one count of passport fraud conspiracy and one count of money laundering conspiracy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>One Chukwunonso Obiora on Tuesday was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in several plots to launder criminal proceeds from fraud and obtaining a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/08\/09\/well-have-to-invade-niger-if-coupists-dont-relinquish-power-united-states\/\">United States<\/a> passport through false statements.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Nigerian man, formerly of Massachusetts, was convicted and sentenced by United States District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>His sentencing will be followed by three years of supervised release. Obiora was also ordered to pay $3,326,014.14 in restitution and forfeiture. In June 2024, Obiora pleaded guilty to one count of passport fraud conspiracy and one count of money laundering conspiracy. Obiora was arrested on a criminal complaint in October 2023 in Atlanta, Ga. and was ordered held pending trial. He was indicted in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Between at least as early as March 2021 and May 2023, Obiora and several co-conspirators agreed to receive and withdraw the proceeds of business email compromises (BECs) from bank accounts that they controlled, and to direct those funds to other co-conspirators, in exchange for a cut of the criminal proceeds. BECs are a type of fraud scheme that targets companies that make regular business payments by wire. Cybercriminals use email to impersonate trusted parties to the payments in order to trick the victim companies into sending money to bank accounts controlled by participants in the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant\u2019s money laundering conspiracy, of which he admitted to being a leader and organizer, involved obtaining individual victims\u2019 means of identification and to create fake driver\u2019s licenses, incorporate businesses and open bank accounts in the victims\u2019 names; providing the bank accounts to co-conspirators involved in the BEC schemes as accounts to which victims could be tricked into sending wires; withdrawing money quickly from the bank accounts once the wire transfers arrived, before victim companies learned that they had been tricked into sending money; and depositing the proceeds into other accounts, and wiring BEC scheme proceeds to the defendant and others in Nigeria, China and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant and his co-conspirators took steps to conceal the existence of the conspiracy, including by forging business invoices and writing false memos on checks to suggest that the BEC scheme proceeds deposited into Destination Accounts were legitimate business revenues; and by making false statements to banks regarding the nature of the BEC scheme proceeds that were deposited into Destination Accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant and his U.S.-based co-conspirators shared at least as much as 40 percent of the deposited BEC scheme proceeds as payment for their roles in the conspiracy. In just two-plus years, the defendant and his co-conspirators engaged in at least $6.5 million in financial transactions involving the proceeds of BEC schemes.<\/p>\n<p>After immigration authorities removed the defendant from the United States in December 2021, he agreed with a close relative who is an American citizen to obtain a U.S. passport in the relative\u2019s name, which the defendant could use to re-enter the United States illegally. The relative reported his passport lost or stolen and, in May 2023, applied for a new passport at a U.S. Post Office in Watertown, Mass. The sworn application had the relative\u2019s name on it, but a picture of the defendant. The relative sent the issued passport to the defendant, who, in October 2023, used the passport to travel from Nigeria to Detroit, Mich., where the defendant presented himself as his relative at the U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy and Michael J. Krol, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations New England made the announcement today. Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Diplomatic Security Service, Criminal Investigations Division. Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth B. Kosto, Chief of the Securities, Financial &amp; Cyber Fraud Unit, prosecuted the case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2024, Obiora pleaded guilty to one count of passport fraud conspiracy and one count of money laundering conspiracy. One Chukwunonso Obiora on Tuesday was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in several plots to launder criminal proceeds from fraud and obtaining a United States passport through false statements. 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