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18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by chase4(m): 8:36pm On Dec 23, 2011
Picked this up from another forum, if this is true pls pass it on.


•Adebowale Shekoni (40)
•Abiodun Bakare (37)
•Rilwan Ayatonde Soetan (50)
•Kenneth Eromosele Abulu (36)
•Olselcita Folayan (41)
•Musiliu Balogun (40)
•Mutiat Titilola Olubi (51)
•Ahiata Folashade Price (46)
•Monsuratu Omoniyi Griggs(43)
•Ayodele Soyan (51)
•Ahuama Benjamin Okey (50)
•Basiratu Mojisola Bakare-Giles (47)
•Adegboyega Olukunle Odedina (36)
•Alex Ahmed Ero (51)
•Seye Richard Osinoiki(46)

ARRESTED

•Steve Adedeji
•Apampa Olayinka
•Olugbemiga Adebisi (a.k.a.) George Banks



They are our compatriots. But they operate in other shores.

Their activities are an embarrassment to all of us.

They indulge in crimes for which all of us should flinch.

Indeed, the United States Secret Service and narcotics agents have dubbed the 18 as some of the most wanted on their list.

A manhunt is on to arrest 15 of them. Already, three others have been arrested by Interpol officers in Lagos.

They are wanted for multi-million dollar bank frauds, identity theft, drug pushing and, in the case of one of them, the violation of an expectant mother.

The Commissioner of Police in charge of Interpol, Mrs Atinuke Koyi confirmed the arrests of three of the suspects.

The United States Secret Service, US Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA), United States Marshals Service, the US. Postal Inspection Service and the office of the New York State Governor, David Paterson named some of those wanted as Adebowale Shekoni (40), Abiodun Bakare (37), Rilwan Ayatonde Soetan (50), Kenneth Eromosele Abulu (36), Olselcita Folayan (41), Musiliu Balogun (40) and Mutiat Titilola Olubi (51).The others are: Ahiata Folashade Price (46), Monsuratu Omoniyi Griggs (43), Ayodele Soyan (51), Ahuama Benjamin Okey (50), Basiratu Mojisola Bakare-Giles (47), Adegboyega Olukunle Odedina (36), Alex Ahmed Ero (51) and 46-year-old Seye Richard Osinoiki, who is wanted for the violation of the expectant mother.

Those already arrested are: Steve Adedeji, Apampa Olayinka and Olugbemiga Adebisi (a.k.a.) George Banks).

Reports say that the US Federal Bureau of Intelligence(FBI) has also embarked on a joint operation with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) in Nigeria, to arrest others who may be hiding in the country.

In the US, the dragnet, according to Assistant Director of Criminal Investigations at the FBI, Chip Burrus, involves 56 field offices. He said: “We hope that publicity would help find and bring the fugitives to justice.”

Nigerian Compass learnt that Shekoni, who was residing in Atlanta, Georgia, was indicted for 13 bank frauds, conspiracy, passing counterfeit cheques, interstate travel in aid of racketeering and money laundering conspiracy. His case summary says he entered the United States illegally and had been involved with a counterfeit cheque cashing ring.

Those involved in cheque kitting frauds against multiple banks, which had caused the United States millions of dollars in losses to banks and merchants, usually open business accounts, mostly under gas station identities. They use the bank cheques to float between bank accounts and systematically withdraw money from these accounts prior to the banks awareness that the worthless cheques are either drawn from accounts with insufficient funds or closed accounts.

They also use worthless cheques drawn on the accounts to buy items from wholesale distributors.

The case against Soetan is listed thus: “Aggravated identity theft and fraud.”

The Secret Service, Miami office says: “Rilwan Soetan is a Nigerian national identified as part of an organised group responsible for the compromise of more than 2000 personal credit card reports. Subsequent aggravated identity theft/fraud perpetrated by Soetan and his group have resulted in significant financial losses.”

Bakare, who is wanted for financial crimes, is also accused of using a vehicle to knock down a Federal Officer while escaping arrest.

The case summary states: “This individual is wanted for charges related to financial crimes and assault on a federal officer. Bakare ran an elaborate financial scheme in which he used stolen personal information to open fraudulent credit card accounts.”

Folayan, a DEA- listed fugitive, is accused of Federal drug violations, including alleged conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Northern district of Illinois. His poster warns people not to attempt apprehending him. Rather, people who see him should alert the US Marshals Service.

A warning from the Secret Service on the fugitives says: “Do not attempt to apprehend any of these individuals. Contact the Secret Service or local police; or, if overseas, the nearest US Embassy or Consulate if you have information regarding these individuals.”

Federal Agents in the United States say that Musiliu Balogun, who has been on the run for about five years, was behind a drug distribution network, moving as much as 80 per cent of the white heroin coming into the United States from Southeast Asia.

When the ring was smashed, 24 suspects were arrested and over 72 kilogrammes of heroin seized. Balogun and his girlfriend Mutiat Titilola Olubi were identified as leaders of the drug cartel. They were once sighted in Togo and Thailand.

Born on September 5, 1963, in Ibadan, Oyo State, Balogun is believed to be one-metre seventy-six centimeters tall. He weighs 75 kilogrammes, has black hair and brown eyes.

Besides Mutiat Olubi, details of crimes committed by other Nigerian women who appeared on the Most Wanted list were also given.

One Ahiata Folashade Price is wanted for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Monsurat Omoniyi Griggs and Basiratu Bakare-Giles were accused of the same offence in different regions of the United States.

Detectives at the Detroit Division are still searching for Ahuama Benjamin Okey, identified as Fugitive NCIC-W163933955. He is wanted for alleged Federal Drug Violations and conspiracy to distribute heroin at the Eastern district of Michigan.

In the Maryland district, Odedina is wanted for bank fraud. US Postal Inspection Service in Colorado district is looking for Ahmed Ero over mail fraud.

Information at the Atlanta office of the Secret Service Agents shows that a 36-year-old Kenneth Eromosele Abulu is wanted for passing counterfeit currency and using false identification.

The US Secret Service investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States. It has been collaborating with Nigerian agencies striving to give the nation a good image.

“When they send specific request to us, we assist in tracking the criminals. But if they're looking for somebody and a formal request is not made, there is nothing we can do,” said Mrs Koyi, the Interpol boss.

She said following specific requests, her men arrested one 50-year-old Olugbemiga Adebisi aka George Banks. According to her, Banks was arrested at the Murtala The Great Prophet International Airport, Lagos on arrival from China where he had served a one- year jail term for bank fraud.

Detectives even wondered why the fugitive calls himself George Banks, the name of a Pennsylvania mass murderer, who shot 13 people in 1982 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, five of them his own children.

In the US, the Nigerian George Banks was declared wanted for Access Device Fraud, Aggravated Identity theft, mail theft, social security number violations and other frauds. He allegedly escaped from New Hampshire to China and committed the same offences.

The Chinese authorities, however, got him.“Each time Adebisi commits the crimes, their monitor catches him. Yet, he kept on running from one country to another,” a source told Nigerian Compass.

In China, Adebisi seemed to have found wisdom in the saying “When you're in Rome, do like the Romans.” He bleached his skin and altered his features to look like the Chinese.

The two other persons in Interpol's net are Steve Adedeji and Apampa Olayinka. They were caught when they approached the US Embassy to renew their visas, thinking that the search for them was over.

Interestingly, the Interpol allowed them home on bail after the US Secret Service failed to respond to letters sent by the security outfit. Adedeji and Olayinka now report at the Interpol office at Alagbon every Monday.

The Commissioner of Police (CP), Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Mr Olayinka Balogun told Nigerian Compass that the SFU had been collaborating with international agencies to check the activities of fraudsters.

His words: “Generally, they send scam letters to us and ask us to help track some of these criminals. There are some cases that we are working on right now.”

On his part, EFCC's spokesman, Osita Nwaja admitted the anti-graft agency's collaboration with the American agencies, saying, “We have good working relationship with the major agencies around the world. FBI is one of the backbones of the EFCC, it has trained some of our people. We've worked extremely closely with them. We've had some joint operations in Lagos area and intercepted outbound mails sent by fraudsters with fake cheques and all sorts of documents. We're also working with the German police and the South African Scorpion. They have so much trust in the EFCC because of our achievements in the war against fraudsters over the years
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nobody: 9:23pm On Dec 23, 2011
trust southerners
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Obiagu1(m): 9:35pm On Dec 23, 2011
Yoruba, na wa oo!
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Rgp92: 9:38pm On Dec 23, 2011
Hahahahahaha! grin
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Rgp92: 9:40pm On Dec 23, 2011
Where is your source?
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nobody: 12:14am On Dec 24, 2011
Yoroo, if you put Ba; na you sabi.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by peckhamboi: 12:35am On Dec 24, 2011
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nadanbata: 2:09am On Dec 24, 2011
Me I claim Niger Republic o. Southerners have destroy Naija name abroad tongue
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Relax101(m): 3:04am On Dec 24, 2011
Nigerians have been able to swindle the Citi Bank in New York of about 30 billion dollars by getting it to honour a forged cash payment request from Ethiopia's Central Bank.

Three Nigerian men were arrested in Seoul on Thursday for allegedly withdrawing millions of dollars from Citi Bank in New York on the forged cash payment request, South Korean Police said.

The suspects, whose names were withheld, were reported to police by one of the local banks in Seoul to which the money had been remitted for their collection, said Han Jeong, Head of the Foreign Affairs Investigation Department of Yongsan Police Station.

"The suspects say they have already handed over most of the money to Ethiopian residents in Korea," Han said.

In August, the suspects sent a forged cash payment request from the National Bank of Ethiopia to the New York headquarters of the U.S.'s largest bank, requesting some of the Ethiopian deposits be sent to bank accounts in several countries, including South Korea, China and Tanzania, police said.

Citibank transferred about 6.4 million dollars to four Korean banks in Seoul, and the Nigerians have already withdrawn 5.68 million dollars.

The Police caught the suspects while trying to withdraw the remaining 720,000 dollars from a local Kookmin Bank, Korea's largest lender, which had received a request from Citibank to suspend the payment.

"After belatedly discovering that the documents had been forged, Citibank notified the Korean banks," Han said. "A Korean bank clerk thought there was something fishy about them and reported the matter to the Police."

Two of the suspects were in Korea on a business visa, while another was in the country illegally, Han said.

Police said Citibank officials told them that the forged document had signatures from the chief and the directorial board of the Ethiopian Central Bank and that the fraudulent remittances to several countries totalled as much as 30 billion dollars. It is not known whether the fraudulent scheme has been detected in other countries.

Police said they have yet to investigate whether the fraud could extend into a global financial scam or how the document forgery involving the central bank was possible in the first place.

Yonhap/GNA
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by ak47mann(m): 3:22pm On Dec 24, 2011
yaribas have killed Nigerian passport, thank GOD i get red passport,any airport i land they show me maximum respect cool cool  foolish Nigerians,
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by emmke(m): 1:16am On Dec 25, 2011
i knew i wont see a single northern name on the list. Trust southerners indeed. grin
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nadanbata: 1:18am On Dec 25, 2011
@emmke they have destroyed Naijas name abroad oo. Anything you hear scam 419 prostitution = southerner , lipsrsealed looool
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by ektbear: 2:04am On Dec 25, 2011
interesting
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Relax101(m): 2:20am On Dec 25, 2011
emmke:

i knew i wont see a single northern name on the list. Trust southerners indeed.  grin

Nadanbata:

@emmke they have destroyed Naijas name abroad oo. Anything you hear scam 419 prostitution = southerner ,  lipsrsealed looool

Riyadh – Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded three Nigerians accused of murdering and robbing a fellow citizen, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Mohammed Ismail, Abdulqudus Adam and Mohammed Kabir Ali broke into the house of Omar Mohammed Adam where “they beat him and his wife, tied them down and strangled Omar to death,” said the statement.

Then they burgled their compatriot’s home, it added.

The beheadings in the western Red Sea city of Jeddah brings the number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom this year to 31, according to an AFP tally based on official and human rights group reports.

On June 10, London-based watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to stop applying the death penalty, saying there had been a significant rise in the number of executions in the previous six weeks.

It said 15 people were executed in May alone.

In 2009, the number of executions reached 67, compared to 102 in 2008.

violation, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islamic shari’ah law.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/07/saudi-beheads-3-nigerians-for-murder/
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Relax101(m): 2:23am On Dec 25, 2011
emmke:

i knew i wont see a single northern name on the list. Trust southerners indeed. grin

Nadanbata:

@emmke they have destroyed Naijas name abroad oo. Anything you hear scam 419 prostitution = southerner , lipsrsealed looool

SAUDI ARABIA has embarked on another orgy of head-chopping, decapitating a total of 55 people so far this year - almost double the executions carried out in 1998 - including two women who were beheaded in public for allegedly trafficking in drugs.
Hawa Faruk and Aisha Saada Kassem had their heads cut off with swords - after their scarves were torn from their heads by their executioners - in Riyadh and Jeddah. Both women were Nigerian; Ms Faruk was decapitated on 28 May and Ms Kassem was executed before a large crowd outside a mosque just a week ago.

Needless to say, there have been no words of condemnation in the West, let alone in the United States, whose troops continue to be based in the kingdom and whose oil investments in Saudi Arabia render even the slightest criticism impossible. The women - like the 53 male victims - were tried in semi-secret courts. An unusually large number of beheadings this year were carried out on foreigners: they included 10 Pakistanis for drug offences, five Nigerians (four for alleged drug offences, one for armed robbery), three Indians (two for drug-related crimes, one for rape), two Afghans, two Indonesians and a Syrian.

As usual, the Saudis announced each decapitation with a short paragraph in the government-controlled press. Aisha Kassem's execution - "with a sabre", it was gruesomely announced - took place after she was convicted of "smuggling cocaine hidden in her intestines".




Read more here dumb f0rks.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/women-beheaded-in-saudi-execution-frenzy-1108103.html
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Onlytruth(m): 2:33am On Dec 25, 2011
chei! shocked shocked shocked

How come this is 95% Yoruba? I hope this is not a joke. cry
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nobody: 5:18am On Dec 25, 2011
Onlytruth:

chei!  shocked shocked shocked

How come this is 95% Yoruba? I hope this is not a joke.  cry

It would help you to know that this list was culled from Over/Almost 10years ago. Do more research. The poster is just being deceitful and is clearly trying to start a war between the usual combating tribes.

Did you wonder why Tobechi Onwuahara, One of the most wanted men in the world today, was not on the list?!
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by nduchucks: 5:35am On Dec 25, 2011
Onlytruth:

chei! shocked shocked shocked

How come this is 95% Yoruba? I hope this is not a joke. cry

nwannem Eze Onlytruthlie, first off, Ekelere m gi maka Keresimesi na ubochi izizi afo ozo. Before you jump for joy, note that by the time you get to the 3rd or 4th a.k.a. the true identity of these wanted folks will be revealed.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Rhino5dm: 7:06am On Dec 25, 2011
How can you be so ignorant of facts on ground? Or are you just trying to display the deep rooted lies and sheer hatred associated with your people?

A quick visual analysis of those involve in Pushing drugs,Prostititionns,Money rituals,Arm robbery across the country should return more than 80% Igbos.

I never saw you commenting on your letest cold hearted, wicked trade of buying and selling of small small children. Baby clinic, A place where children are bought and sold like chicken. shocked

Do we need to discuss kidnapping? Hell No! The igbos have monopolize the trade and even issue license for potential kidnappers to be.

Permit me to say here, that only Igbos support large scale fraud and criminality. It is a common knowledge to hear youths hailing you in Igbo land, after a "successful" robbery,drug pushing, money swinddling or scam with "Nna mehn, the guy don make am"


I shall leave our notable Eze with the following questions,

1. Can you give us a rough statistics of those beheaded in china/Singerpore/Malaysia due to drug related offences?

2. Can you give us a rough statistics of those involve with kidnapping across Nigeria?

3. Can you give us a rough estimates those involved in prostitionns across Nigeria?

4. Can you give us a rough figures of those involved with money rituals across the country?


Onlytruth:

chei! shocked shocked shocked

How come this is 95% Yoruba? I hope this is not a joke. cry
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by ektbear: 7:36am On Dec 25, 2011
Lol.

I would strongly suggest that no one use this as an attempt to paint crime committed by southern Nigerians abroad as a Yoruba phenomenon.

A cursory search through online newspapers shows that this is probably not true. And that in fact another region of Nigeria is #1 when it comes to crime abroad.

Anyway, let us leave it at that.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Gbawe: 10:00am On Dec 25, 2011
Onlytruth:

chei!  shocked shocked shocked

How come this is 95% Yoruba? I hope this is not a joke.  cry

You are nothing but a disgrace and a total tosser. I don't bother with these sort of threads because it is full of ignorant lowlife losers (and you are no doubt one) encouraging division and hatred , but your rank idiocy and bigotry should be exposed because of the fake credentials you parade here as a "defender of your people". I suggest you and other heed Ekt bear warning when he said "I would strongly suggest that no one use this as an attempt to paint crime committed by southern Nigerians abroad as a Yoruba phenomenon" .

Ugly and repellent bigots like you don't do reality but I would suggest you and your fellow 'holier than thou' supremacist chill and shut up because of how it can be easily established , throughout Africa (Ghana for example), that you are also very guilty of what you are accusing others to be masters of.

You disgracefully lead the pack of Ostrich bigots ruining this forum. You are first to accuse others of things, in a second, can be conclusively linked with your region also. What is the matter with the Igbo folks on NL? The Igbos I know are not like you folks at all and , in fact, I think it is the Igbos loser who gravitate towards this forum to gain some 'feel good' comfort. Once again, I say that Mikeansy and Paddy lo are simply , by far, the classiest and best Igbo posters on Nairaland I can call "fellow Nigerians" proudly. The rest of you are losers who will remain wretched, hateful and bypassed by progress.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Gbawe: 10:19am On Dec 25, 2011
ekt_bear:

Lol.

I would strongly suggest that no one use this as an attempt to paint crime committed by southern Nigerians abroad as a Yoruba phenomenon.

A cursory search through online newspapers shows that this is probably not true. And that in fact another region of Nigeria is #1 when it comes to crime abroad.

Anyway, let us leave it at that.

Don't mind these fools. As normal adults , we all face the reality of life to note there is good and bad in every race, ethnic group, sex et al. What do you however do with folks who , despite being also very guilty of misdemeanors , spend all their time trying to portray others to be villains while they pretend to be 'holier than thou' saints? You expose their hypocrisy and self-deciet with cold facts and statistics. Happy Xmas by the way. let folks not heed your warning. We will simply pull out the truth backed by statistics.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Wilywily11: 10:40am On Dec 25, 2011
chase4:

Picked this up from another forum, if this is true pls pass it on.


•Adebowale Shekoni (40)
•Abiodun Bakare (37)
•Rilwan Ayatonde Soetan (50)
•Kenneth Eromosele Abulu (36)
•Olselcita Folayan (41)
•Musiliu Balogun (40)
•Mutiat Titilola Olubi (51)
•Ahiata Folashade Price (46)
•Monsuratu Omoniyi Griggs(43)
•Ayodele Soyan (51)
•Ahuama Benjamin Okey (50)
•Basiratu Mojisola Bakare-Giles (47)
•Adegboyega Olukunle Odedina (36)
•Alex Ahmed Ero (51)
•Seye Richard Osinoiki(46)

ARRESTED

•Steve Adedeji
•Apampa Olayinka
•Olugbemiga Adebisi (a.k.a.) George Banks



They are our compatriots. But they operate in other shores.

Their activities are an embarrassment to all of us.

They indulge in crimes for which all of us should flinch.

Indeed, the United States Secret Service and narcotics agents have dubbed the 18 as some of the most wanted on their list.

A manhunt is on to arrest 15 of them. Already, three others have been arrested by Interpol officers in Lagos.

They are wanted for multi-million dollar bank frauds, identity theft, drug pushing and, in the case of one of them, the violation of an expectant mother.

The Commissioner of Police in charge of Interpol, Mrs Atinuke Koyi confirmed the arrests of three of the suspects.

The United States Secret Service, US Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA), United States Marshals Service, the US. Postal Inspection Service and the office of the New York State Governor, David Paterson named some of those wanted as Adebowale Shekoni (40), Abiodun Bakare (37), Rilwan Ayatonde Soetan (50), Kenneth Eromosele Abulu (36), Olselcita Folayan (41), Musiliu Balogun (40) and Mutiat Titilola Olubi (51).The others are: Ahiata Folashade Price (46), Monsuratu Omoniyi Griggs (43), Ayodele Soyan (51), Ahuama Benjamin Okey (50), Basiratu Mojisola Bakare-Giles (47), Adegboyega Olukunle Odedina (36), Alex Ahmed Ero (51) and 46-year-old Seye Richard Osinoiki, who is wanted for the violation of the expectant mother.

Those already arrested are: Steve Adedeji, Apampa Olayinka and Olugbemiga Adebisi (a.k.a.) George Banks).

Reports say that the US Federal Bureau of Intelligence(FBI) has also embarked on a joint operation with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) in Nigeria, to arrest others who may be hiding in the country.

In the US, the dragnet, according to Assistant Director of Criminal Investigations at the FBI, Chip Burrus, involves 56 field offices. He said: “We hope that publicity would help find and bring the fugitives to justice.”

Nigerian Compass learnt that Shekoni, who was residing in Atlanta, Georgia, was indicted for 13 bank frauds, conspiracy, passing counterfeit cheques, interstate travel in aid of racketeering and money laundering conspiracy. His case summary says he entered the United States illegally and had been involved with a counterfeit cheque cashing ring.

Those involved in cheque kitting frauds against multiple banks, which had caused the United States millions of dollars in losses to banks and merchants, usually open business accounts, mostly under gas station identities. They use the bank cheques to float between bank accounts and systematically withdraw money from these accounts prior to the banks awareness that the worthless cheques are either drawn from accounts with insufficient funds or closed accounts.

They also use worthless cheques drawn on the accounts to buy items from wholesale distributors.

The case against Soetan is listed thus: “Aggravated identity theft and fraud.”

The Secret Service, Miami office says: “Rilwan Soetan is a Nigerian national identified as part of an organised group responsible for the compromise of more than 2000 personal credit card reports. Subsequent aggravated identity theft/fraud perpetrated by Soetan and his group have resulted in significant financial losses.”

Bakare, who is wanted for financial crimes, is also accused of using a vehicle to knock down a Federal Officer while escaping arrest.

The case summary states: “This individual is wanted for charges related to financial crimes and assault on a federal officer. Bakare ran an elaborate financial scheme in which he used stolen personal information to open fraudulent credit card accounts.”

Folayan, a DEA- listed fugitive, is accused of Federal drug violations, including alleged conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Northern district of Illinois. His poster warns people not to attempt apprehending him. Rather, people who see him should alert the US Marshals Service.

A warning from the Secret Service on the fugitives says: “Do not attempt to apprehend any of these individuals. Contact the Secret Service or local police; or, if overseas, the nearest US Embassy or Consulate if you have information regarding these individuals.”

Federal Agents in the United States say that Musiliu Balogun, who has been on the run for about five years, was behind a drug distribution network, moving as much as 80 per cent of the white heroin coming into the United States from Southeast Asia.

When the ring was smashed, 24 suspects were arrested and over 72 kilogrammes of heroin seized. Balogun and his girlfriend Mutiat Titilola Olubi were identified as leaders of the drug cartel. They were once sighted in Togo and Thailand.

Born on September 5, 1963, in Ibadan, Oyo State, Balogun is believed to be one-metre seventy-six centimeters tall. He weighs 75 kilogrammes, has black hair and brown eyes.

Besides Mutiat Olubi, details of crimes committed by other Nigerian women who appeared on the Most Wanted list were also given.

One Ahiata Folashade Price is wanted for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Monsurat Omoniyi Griggs and Basiratu Bakare-Giles were accused of the same offence in different regions of the United States.

Detectives at the Detroit Division are still searching for Ahuama Benjamin Okey, identified as Fugitive NCIC-W163933955. He is wanted for alleged Federal Drug Violations and conspiracy to distribute heroin at the Eastern district of Michigan.

In the Maryland district, Odedina is wanted for bank fraud. US Postal Inspection Service in Colorado district is looking for Ahmed Ero over mail fraud.

Information at the Atlanta office of the Secret Service Agents shows that a 36-year-old Kenneth Eromosele Abulu is wanted for passing counterfeit currency and using false identification.

The US Secret Service investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States. It has been collaborating with Nigerian agencies striving to give the nation a good image.

“When they send specific request to us, we assist in tracking the criminals. But if they're looking for somebody and a formal request is not made, there is nothing we can do,” said Mrs Koyi, the Interpol boss.

She said following specific requests, her men arrested one 50-year-old Olugbemiga Adebisi aka George Banks. According to her, Banks was arrested at the Murtala The Great Prophet International Airport, Lagos on arrival from China where he had served a one- year jail term for bank fraud.

Detectives even wondered why the fugitive calls himself George Banks, the name of a Pennsylvania mass murderer, who shot 13 people in 1982 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, five of them his own children.

In the US, the Nigerian George Banks was declared wanted for Access Device Fraud, Aggravated Identity theft, mail theft, social security number violations and other frauds. He allegedly escaped from New Hampshire to China and committed the same offences.

The Chinese authorities, however, got him.“Each time Adebisi commits the crimes, their monitor catches him. Yet, he kept on running from one country to another,” a source told Nigerian Compass.

In China, Adebisi seemed to have found wisdom in the saying “When you're in Rome, do like the Romans.” He bleached his skin and altered his features to look like the Chinese.

The two other persons in Interpol's net are Steve Adedeji and Apampa Olayinka. They were caught when they approached the US Embassy to renew their visas, thinking that the search for them was over.

Interestingly, the Interpol allowed them home on bail after the US Secret Service failed to respond to letters sent by the security outfit. Adedeji and Olayinka now report at the Interpol office at Alagbon every Monday.

The Commissioner of Police (CP), Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Mr Olayinka Balogun told Nigerian Compass that the SFU had been collaborating with international agencies to check the activities of fraudsters.

His words: “Generally, they send scam letters to us and ask us to help track some of these criminals. There are some cases that we are working on right now.”

On his part, EFCC's spokesman, Osita Nwaja admitted the anti-graft agency's collaboration with the American agencies, saying, “We have good working relationship with the major agencies around the world. FBI is one of the backbones of the EFCC, it has trained some of our people. We've worked extremely closely with them. We've had some joint operations in Lagos area and intercepted outbound mails sent by fraudsters with fake cheques and all sorts of documents. We're also working with the German police and the South African Scorpion. They have so much trust in the EFCC because of our achievements in the war against fraudsters over the years
Everyone see for yourself, I said it, Fraud is in the Gene of every Yoruba person, Unless they are Genetically Modified Fraud would have no end in Nigeria. How can these people be so obsessed with Fraudulent Lifesyle. please God i dey beg you save Nigeria from them.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Zs(m): 5:25pm On Jan 25, 2012
Hello there did you ever get that contact of the gold seller in ilesha Osun state
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Zs(m): 5:30pm On Jan 25, 2012
non
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by presido1: 6:28pm On Jan 25, 2012
ekt_bear:

Lol.

I would strongly suggest that no one use this as an attempt to paint crime committed by southern Nigerians abroad as a Yoruba phenomenon.

A cursory search through online newspapers shows that this is probably not true. And that in fact another region of Nigeria is #1 when it comes to crime abroad. Anyway, let us leave it at that.
I wonder how/why Gbawe did not highlight the highlighted sentence above. Maybe he is what he accuse others of or he see nothing bad in that line.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by NegroNtns(m): 8:25pm On Jan 25, 2012
shyyt, I have two passports. . . . one in Yoruba name, the other in Kanuri name. They both are officialy recognized and registered legal documents.

We have known for years that criminal iyanmiris are using documents illegaly registered in Yoruba names, since they now speak good Yoruba, to identify themselves as Yorubas in their sinful acts. You only discover the truth when the interrogating officer happens to be a true Yoruba, then clues are revealed on why chukwuma and nkem are now calling themselves babatuinde and iyabo.
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by chino11(m): 9:50pm On Jan 25, 2012
Yoroobas sef, when will this monsters stop giving us bad name
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nobody: 10:20pm On Jan 25, 2012
but yoruba men sha! shocked
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nobody: 11:23pm On Jan 25, 2012
why are u complaining. they are just hustling. Do you want them to drink otapiapia like awo
Re: 18 Most Wanted Nigerians In The US(?) by Nobody: 11:26pm On Jan 25, 2012
imagine having to share a national travel document with these types of people sad

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