Canada To Deport Nigerian Conman
February 18

A Nigerian immigrant, who pulled off an elaborate e-mail scam that cost a retired Winnipeg doctor more than $35,000, has been denied release back into the community while he awaits deportation.
Toluwalade Alonge Owolabi, 37, told the Federal Immigration and Refugee Board, Tuesday, that he wants to return to Toronto to spend time with his sisters and close down his trucking business before Canadian authorities ship him home.

He has just been granted parole after serving part of a 30-month sentence he received last year. Owolabi’s bid was rejected after the board ruled he posed a serious “flight risk” and would likely disappear if granted his freedom. He will remain in custody until his flight back to Nigeria can be arranged, which is expected to happen in the first week of March.

Owolabi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, for his role in the international con, which was uncovered in 2007, following an undercover Winnipeg police operation. A retired Winnipeg doctor was duped into thinking he was in line to inherit more than $1 million, which he planned to donate to Third World countries in their ongoing battle against the deadly malaria. In fact, the 84-year-old man was the victim of a common hoax that rarely leads to arrest.

The victim — a world-renowned expert on malaria, who has done extensive work with the World Health Organization — was contacted with an offer that must have appeared too good to be true. The mysterious e-mailer said he would be in line for a massive inheritance if he wired more than $35,000 to a bank in Ghana, Africa. The senior complied — moving money from a Swiss bank account he owned — and was expecting a windfall in return.

The victim called police after he was asked for more money, and Owolabi was arrested after he flew to Winnipeg from Toronto to meet the victim and collect another payment of $7,800.

http://thepmnews.com/2009/02/18/canada-to-deport-nigerian-conman

What an idiot (both of them). Send his self home, no point in harboring criminals- especially in this economic climate.

na wah ooooo, more are being caugt all da time