Nigeria long jumper Mercy Abire faces a maximum jail term of 20 years in the US after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
According to court documents and information presented to the Court, between 2018 and 2022, Uyoyo Mercy Abire, 28, and her coconspirators former men’s 100m national champion Raymond Ekevwo and Aniekeme Etim used online romance scams, online charity scams, and other types of fraud to defraud victims of their money. The money received as a result of these scams was then transferred between the conspirators, and ultimately, much of the money was transferred overseas. Between November 2018 and April of 2019, Abire herself transferred over $100,000.00 to coconspirators through her U.S. bank account.

Abire is scheduled to be sentenced on August 30, 2023. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

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Raymond Ekevwo, Mercy Abire and EtimATHLETICS
Reigning African champion, Ekevwo, two others also indicted in wire, mail fraud scandal
by boldsportsngNovember 16, 2022
…Mercy Abire, others wire N99m to Nigeria
Three more Nigerian athletes reigning African Games 100m champion Raymond Ekevwo, Mercy Abire and Aniekeme Etim were also indicted over wire and mail fraud in the US, Boldsportsng.com can confirm.

Boldsportsng.com had earlier reported that two Nigerian athletes Toluwani Adebakin and Emmanuel Ineh face a 10-year jail term after being convicted by US District Judge Kristi Johnson of the Southern District of Mississippi for transferring thousands of dollars to Nigeria as part of a complex fraud scheme.

Ekevwo, 23, who won the gold medal in the men’s 100m at the African Games in Rabat, Morocco in 2019 was part of the men’s 4x100m relay quartet that won bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK and was also in Nigeria’s team to the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.

Abire, 25, a student at the Louisiana State University, last competed in the women’s long jump event of the Nigeria qualification trials for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos in July 2019, while Etim, 22, was the African Champion in the women’s 100m event at the 2015 African Junior Championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Further court documents seen by our correspondent, revealed that Ekevwo, Abire and Etim were also charged to court alongside Adebakin, Ineh and a Zimbabwean athlete Ngoni Chadyiwa on several counts of fraud at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi Eastern Division.

The court document showed that the indicted athletes wired a total of $223,426 which is about N99 million to their co-conspirators in Nigeria.

Count 1 read, “Beginning at a date unknown but at least as early as May 2018, and continuing until the date of this Indictment, in Forrest County, in the Eastern Division of the Southern District of Mississippi, and elsewhere, the defendants, ANIEKEME ETIM, TOLUWANI ADEBAKIN, NGONI CHADYIWA, EMMANUEL INEH, RAYMOND EKEVWO, and UYOYO MERCY ABIRE a.k.a Mercy Abire Matanmi, did knowingly combine, conspire, and agree with each other and with other persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury to commit offenses against the United States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1956 and 1957, to wit:

Kai, Jesus. A whole athlete. She has literally thrown her life away. Eight years she could put into the sport would be wasted in the prison system.