…face 10-year jail terms each

It was another sad moment in the anals of Nigerian track and field after five athletes were convicted for money laundering in the United States of America.

In a judgement delivered on November 10 in the Southern District of Mississippi, the five collegiate athletes, Aniekeme Etim, Raymond Ekevwo, Toluwani Adebakin, Mercy Abire and Emmanuel Ineh, were convicted before U.S. District Judge Kristi Johnson for transferring thousands of dollars to Nigeria as part of a complex fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Jackson Field Office.

In a statement on the website of the US Department of Justice website, the five athletes, including a Zimbabwean, Ugoni Chadyiwa, face up to a 10-year jail term expected to start in February 2023 after they all pleaded guilty to the charge.

“According to court documents, all the six individuals pleaded guilty to violations of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1957, for engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activities, collectively sending tens of thousands of illicitly obtained proceeds to fraudsters in Nigeria as part of a larger mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy,” the statement read.

“The scheme involved Track and Field athletes from multiple higher learning institutions in the United States, with part of the conspiracy being operated out of Hattiesburg while the Ineh and Adebakin were Track and Field teammates at William Carey University. William Carey University was cooperative throughout the investigation. “The defendants are scheduled to be sentenced on February 15, 2023 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case.” Speaking with our correspondent, a Nigerian coach based in the US, who craved anonymity said it was a shame that the athletes allowed themselves to be used for such a criminal activity. He added that the problem of most athletes is that they don’t speak out to people around them who would have been of help to them.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/money-laundering-us-convicts-five-nigerian-athletes/

Too bad. Let's try to avoid crime. Nigerians are good people.

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Misfortune

Crime does not pay.

If you do the crime you will do the time

Sorry

Hustle can take u anywhere
Even jail

They are giving us bad image abroad while Tinubu is giving us bad image back home

N

Tinubu have you seen what the drug you introduced into the system is causing?

They used them as picker

Awon Pickers.
I wonder what would make a college athlete be doing picker for yahoo boys.
Such a shame.
You already have a platform to be successful, but no you go still cut corners sha.

The rate at which Nigerians in the US involve
in financial fraud is very disturbing.The US is d
wealthiest country on earth.You have to be
Extremely lazy and prodigal not to achieve sth
substantial in d US.

While do this nah?

Eskelebetiolebebe

ednut1:
They used them as picker

If you are related to Tunde Ednut, tell him thunder will fire him

Dollars dey shake account. One can’t blame them. It’s possible they did nothing wrong and the white man is angry they sent ‘almighty dollars’ to their shithole nations.

Awon picker

Shame. You’ll do fraud here and then blame it on Nigerian government. You’ll leave the country and still do the same fraud, who do una like this?

Name checkers well done

Dem don spoil their career

Nairaland?
Look at the way the names of the Money launderers were highlighted not for easily reading purposes, or for better comprehension, but so as to bring ethnicity in to play, and for people to start insulting tribes of their fellow Nigerians,

When dem come Nigeria for Christmas dem go dey press our neck with their ill gotten loots. Dem go tell us how dem dey run for Deloitte and Mobil get $1million per second
Jail dem jare, no pity for drug and fraud people

Lol

Good

The five collegiate athletes, Aniekeme Etim, Raymond Ekevwo, Toluwani Adebakin, Mercy Abire and Emmanuel Ineh, were convicted before U.S. District Judge Kristi Johnson for transferring thousands of dollars to Nigeria as part of a complex fraud scheme.

I decide to bold this part for those Tribalists especially some Yoruba Muslims that are tribalist that feel Igbos are the one that engage in fraud abroad.

Normally they would have flooded this thread with all kind of hate speech against Igbos. But I'm happy that when they throw a blow nature finds a way of throwing three blows back at them.

I know a guy that lost 33.5 Million contract in 2015 for being tribalistic. Till today dude is still damn broke. The debt on his head, "cumbersome."

This is highest I know of people who have lost something for being a tribal bigot.

For those always salivating on Igbo thread/ssues, I keep telling/saying it you all hate will drown you someday. You think life is a one party race? I laugh.

Athletes are codded runs men

Pathetic....and thats how their career nosedived

obedience4:
Nairaland?
Look at the way the names of the Money launderers were highlighted not for easily reading purposes, or for better comprehension, but so as to bring ethnicity in to play, and for people to start insulting tribes of their fellow Nigerians,

i tire oo

Another prophecy Run Forrest !

igbo lifestyle

Any small transfer is money laundering. Common transfer to aboki account has turned to be money laundering. Nawao for America o