Mr Barrows also said if granted bail, he (Rufai) 'doesn’t represent a flight risk, in part because he has given up his passport.'
Mr Rufai is accused of using the identities of more than 100 Washington residents to steal more than $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department during the COVID-19 pandemic last year.using a simple feature of Google’s free Gmail service.
He was also “actively engaged in stealing and retaining the personal identifying information of American citizens,” FBI says.Mr Rufai also came underRufai in brief Before making his Instagram account private, Mr Rufai had pictures of himself and other Ogun government officials posted online. The suspect shared photos of his candidacy for the House of Representatives in 2019. His slogans read: “Ready and Committed to Serve with Trust and Ethics.”
He owns a sports betting organisation named Ecobet, and he is popularly described as “a young business turk,” “a philanthropist of note” and a “gregarious and enterprising dude” among his clicks.