I didn't commit fraud on American soil, Obinwanne Okeke tells court

Obinwanne Okeke, the 32-year-old Nigerian arrested in the United States last August, has argued that American authorities lacked jurisdiction to charge him for fraud, court documents show.

Mr Okeke, through his lawyers, said in a preliminary objection filed in the U.S. court that he did not commit the offence he was being accused of in America, and no American companies or individuals were swindled at the material time of his indictment.arrested at the airport by federal agents

The lawyers argued that Mr Okeke’s arrest should not have happened because he did not commit the offence on American soil and nothing in the indictment prepared by the prosecutors indicated that any American was defrauded by Mr Okeke. The F.B.I. then began investigating the case, eventually linking it to Mr Okeke, a 32-year-old Nigerian entrepreneur widely known as ‘Invictus Obi’ in Abuja and other parts of Nigeria, court documents said.

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