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The suspect was said to have sent spoofed emails to businesses used to solicit the transfers.In 2019, he was indicted in the US district court in Nebraska on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.The alleged fraud was said to have been committed from January 2015 to September 2016.In May 2020, the US government asked the Nigerian government to extradite Ogunshakin over the alleged fraud.
“Onome Ijomone, a romance scammer, was sentenced in January 2020 to 60 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $508,934.40 in restitution after his successful extradition from Poland. Other co-conspirators remain at large.”This story is published in partnership with Report for the World, a global service program that supports local public interest journalism.
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