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Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Nobody: 4:31pm On Apr 15, 2017
Gbenga Ogundele aka Benson Ogundele, 58, of Laurel, Maryland has been sentenced to 234 months in prison over conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering arising from a scheme to defraud vulnerable victims of millions of dollars.



Ogundele’s wife Moji Popoola , aka Mojisola Oluwakemi Tin Popoola/Moji T. Popoola, 42, also of Laurel, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Both sentences will be followed by three years of supervised release.


United States District Judge, Paul W. Grimm also convicted Ogundele of aggravated identity theft in connection with the scheme.


Judge Grimm, had on March 20, 2017, sentenced Mojisola’s brother Babatunde Emmanuel Popoola , aka Emmanuel Popoola/Tunde Popoola, 34 to 12 years imprisonment on the same charges.


Ogundele and the Popoolas were convicted on November 18, 2016, after a 17-day trial.


Ogundele, Mojisola, and Emmanuel, were, in 2015, indicted by a federal grand jury alongside Mukhtar Danjuma Haruna , a/k/a “Mukhtar Haruna Danjuma” and “Mukky,” of Lagos, Nigeria; Victor Oyewumi Oloyede , 41, of Laurel; Olusegun Charles Ogunseye, aka “Charles O. Ogunseye,” 58, of Laurel; Adeyinka Olubunmi Awolaja , Jr. , aka “Yinka O. Awolaja, Jr.,” 33, formerly of New Carrolltown, Maryland; Olusola Olla , 48, of Brown Summit, North Carolina; and Olufemi Wilfred Williams , aka “Wilfred Olufemi Williams” and “Femi Williams,” 26, of Owings Mills, Maryland.


The judge ordered Ogundele to forfeit $2,195,103.36, Mojisola Popoola to forfeit approximately $165,000 and to pay restitution of $34,100, and Emmanuel to pay restitution of $465,170.76.



According to the evidence presented during their trial, from January 2011 to May 18, 2015, members of the conspiracy searched online dating websites to initiate romantic relationships with elderly male and female individuals. They phoned, e-mailed, texted and used Internet chat messenger services to form romantic relationships with the victims, who lived in Maryland and around the country.




The members of the conspiracy were said to have used a number of false stories and promises to convince the victims to provide money to the conspirators, including fake hospital bills, plane trips to visit the victims, problems with overseas businesses and foreign taxes. The conspirators opened bank accounts in order to receive millions of dollars from the victims.




Numerous deposits from several victims into bank accounts controlled by the defendants, or checks received from the victims, ranging in individual amounts from $1,720 to $30,000 were also discovered.



Members of the conspiracy used false stories and promises to convince the victims to provide money to the conspirators, including fake hospital bills, plane trips to visit the victims, problems with overseas businesses and foreign taxes.



Oloyede, a co-conspirator was sentenced to 234 months in prison.



Awolaja, Ogunseye, and Williams pleaded guilty to the charges against them. Awolaja will be sentenced on June 12, 2017, Ogunseye, on July 25, 2017, and Williams, on July 27, 2017.




https://www.bellanaija.com/2017/04/online-dating-fraud-lands-nigerian-couple-others-hundreds-of-months-in-u-s-jail/

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Ehinmola(m): 5:35pm On Apr 15, 2017
No wonder Trump is after nigerians. When they visit nigeria, they splash dollar as if they picked it on the floor in US I wonder how old they will be at the end of their jail term and what will be left of them. What a bad one. I hope they will be able to know the road to their villages after the jail term and subsequent repartration to nigeria to come and smell their ass.

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Adventurist(m): 6:53pm On Apr 15, 2017
NCA, soup don done ooooo. Where una dey?

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by madridguy(m): 6:53pm On Apr 15, 2017
tongue

IF NA DRUGS WE SABI THE PEOPLE

IF NA HUMAN TRAFFICKING WE KNOW THEM

IF NA BOMBING WE KNOW THE SPECIALIST

COMING TO INTERNET FRAUD ESPECIALLY IN THE US, CANADA AND THE UK, NA OWANBE PEOPLE.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Godprotectigbo5(f): 6:54pm On Apr 15, 2017
na dem yahoo yahoo master

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by hobermener: 6:54pm On Apr 15, 2017
This is getting crazy yo! Yorubas and igbos pulling out dirty articles from the Internet against each other, just to spite the other grin this gotta end. Lol

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by senatorshegsy5: 6:54pm On Apr 15, 2017
Gud 4 den
Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by raker300: 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
Afonjas doing what they do best!

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by RealHaute: 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
modestofynest:
Gbenga Ogundele aka Benson Ogundele, 58, qnd Ogundele’s wife Moji Popoola , aka Mojisola Oluwakemi Tin Popoola/Moji T. Popoola, 42,

Afonja always setting the pace this is the height of G husband and wife,

We know you're mad; but we still love you. grin

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by AngelicBeing: 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
234 / 12 = 19.5 years in jail sad

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Victornezzar: 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
ncan reporting live from lagos
Tribe: Afonjas
Names:Gbenga Ogundele and moji popoola

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Newboss(m): 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
Really feel pity for them. embarassed embarassed embarassed embarassed

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Nobody: 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
grin

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Captain001(m): 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
Who has prepared this dish for tribal warriors?

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by haykinzz(m): 6:55pm On Apr 15, 2017
omo, na the other way round this time around ooo. make i run comot here before them finish us...

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by raker300: 6:56pm On Apr 15, 2017
After they'll call themselves suffersticated (no typo)

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by martineverest(m): 6:56pm On Apr 15, 2017
thats our post code

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by RealLordZeus(m): 6:56pm On Apr 15, 2017
21yrs, 3months, make dem kuku say life imprisonment

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by samwhi(m): 6:56pm On Apr 15, 2017
Yeepa 234 what!

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by ALAYORMII: 6:57pm On Apr 15, 2017
This people no good



They should have helped them to put 1 to make it

1234

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by samwhi(m): 6:57pm On Apr 15, 2017
Yeepa 234 what! :'

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Man90(m): 6:57pm On Apr 15, 2017
Ndi ofe mmanu ndia self ;DNdi ofe mmanu ndia self

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by blessme2019(m): 6:57pm On Apr 15, 2017
Please guys, there was a savage response on Twitter which a screenshot posted by someone earlier today on a thread,

I cannot recall perfectly but it had words like; if you can turn yourself into a wild animal... "

Pleas I need that screenshot. Thanks in advance.
Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by ephi123(f): 6:57pm On Apr 15, 2017
This respectable looking couple, na wa.

234 months = approx 19 years. That's a long long time. Not worth it.

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by Bollinger(m): 6:58pm On Apr 15, 2017
Ehinmola:
No wonder Trump is after nigerians. When they visit nigeria, they splash dollar as if they picked it on the floor in US I wonder how old they will be at the end of their jail term and what will be left of them. What a bad one. I hope they will be able to know the road to their villages after the jail term and subsequent repartration to nigeria to come and smell their ass.

How this post make sense to you? How do you know that he is not an American citizen? And America will always chase you down irrespective of Nationality of birth. Being a Nigerian in the U.S does not mean a damn thing.

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Re: Nigerian Couple Jailed For 234 Months In The US by BrutalJab: 6:59pm On Apr 15, 2017
Afonjas again They have taken their sophistication abroad again.

Awon ti Seun Egbegbe /Oyenusi. it's in their blood.

cone / bicycle seat heads

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