Woodberry, who pleaded guilty at a US court, is well-known to be an ally of another Nigerian international fraudster, Ramon Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, who was jailed for 11 years by another US court last year.
Olalekan Ponle, better known as Woodberry, has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge at a United States district court.Woodberry is well-known to be an ally of anotherThe two men were arrested for extensive international online scams in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on 10 June 2020, and were flown to the United States to face separate trials.
The judge referred the case to the Probation Department for a pre-sentence investigation and report, which would guide his decision on the appropriate sentence to impose. They hacked into the email account by fraudulently obtaining the account credentials, according to the prosecutors. “PONLE knew that he had no right to the money and that the email was intended to defraud Victim Company B into paying money owed to the supplier to an account controlled by PONLE rather than the supplier.
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