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Nigerian Citizen Sentenced for Role in International Cyber-Fraud Scheme

A citizen of Nigeria residing in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 78 months in prison yesterday for his role in an international cyber fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant of the Western District of Tennessee.

Olufolajimi Abegunde, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sheryl L. Lipman of the Western District of Tennessee who also ordered Abegunde to pay $57,911.62 in restitution to the victims of his offense. Abegunde and Javier Luis Ramos-Alonso, 29, were convicted in March after a seven-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Ramos-Alonso previously received a 31-month sentence for his role in the scheme.

Abegunde and Ramos-Alonso participated in a criminal organization in which members “spoofed” emails and created fake profiles on dating websites in order to fool victims into sending money to bogus bank accounts under the control of members of the conspiracy. The proceeds would be laundered and subsequently wired out of the United States to destinations including West Africa. The organization as a whole is believed to have caused more than $10,000,000 in damage to U.S. citizens and businesses.

The evidence presented at trial showed that Abegunde, who received an MBA from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, engaged in black-market currency exchanges over the life of the conspiracy. Purporting to hold himself out as a legitimate businessman, Abegunde claimed association with a business entity that was not yet operational in late 2017, so for his primary source of income he relied on his off-the-book currency exchanges. Through this network, Abegeunde played a key role, along with Ramos-Alonso, in laundering fraud funds from an Oct. 3, 2016, business email compromise (BEC) of a land title company located in Bellingham, Washington. The proceeds of another BEC perpetrated in July 2016 upon a real estate company in Memphis, Tennessee, also moved through parts of the same criminal organization.

Abegunde, who faced numerous account closures from banks in the United States, used a complicated network of third-party bank accounts to disguise his illicit activity. The proof at trial established that Abegunde told people that he could not receive payments into accounts that could be “tracked,” and that he preferred to engage in cash transactions because they were easier to clean and “eliminated the risk.”

In addition to his financial activities, Abegunde also engaged in a conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. Abegunde was married during his studies at Texas A&M, but divorced his wife in 2016 to marry a U.S. service member through whom he could obtain immigration and health care benefits and also open new bank accounts. He continued to live with his first wife in Atlanta while his U.S. service member wife was deployed to South Korea. While incarcerated and awaiting trial in the Western District of Tennessee, Abegunde continued his conspiratorial activities, trying to convince his fake spouse, who has since filed for divorce, to refuse to testify against him. Abegunde also engaged in witness tampering by sending a self-written Motion to Dismiss bearing his former attorney’s name and professional attestation. The evidence at trial established that Abegunde drafted and sent the motion, which his attorney expressly did not authorize, to his faux spouse in an effort to deceive her into not testifying against him.

Five other individuals have pleaded guilty to being involved in the scheme. Additionally, several foreign nationals are awaiting extradition to the United States to face trial. Others are still at large.

The FBI’s Memphis Field Office investigated the case with assistance from agents in Atlanta and San Jose, California. Senior Trial Attorney Timothy C. Flowers with the Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra L. Ireland prosecuted the case. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs is handling the extraditions.

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A 21 year old sales person for fashion brand H & M , Lydia Roberts killed her self because she felt hurt, devastated and violated after she found indecent photos of children in her boyfriend's phone, her mother Michelle has revealed Tuesday to Metro UK.

Lydia was dating business man Adam Wells for two years, before the shocking discovery that made her take her life.
21- year-old lady commits suicide after finding child porn on boyfriend?s phone

While her boyfriend was at work, Lydia saw the lewd images of children on his second phone, images he had downloaded from a Russian website, and then they started arguing on phone before he returned to their shared flat in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, on his lunch break.

They continued quarreling until Wells left the house to go and meet up with friends, then to his surprise when he came back by 3.30am the next morning he found out she had taken her life and proceeded to call police.

Recording a conclusion of suicide by hanging, Coroner Zak Golombeck said to Metro UK: ‘Adam and Lydia had been corresponding by text message during the course of 9 June.

‘Lydia was at home and Adam was at work for a larger period of the day and later out with friends and colleagues. ‘The nature of the messages had been that Lydia and Adam had argued about content found on one of Adam Wells’ mobile phones.

‘Adam Wells had returned home at around lunch time and shortly after him departing, Lydia had continued to message Adam Wells.

‘It continued up until 7pm or shortly thereafter, whereupon no further text messaging or contact was made between Adam and Lydia.’

The coroner continued: ‘I have considered the totality of the evidence and I am able to conclude that Lydia Roberts took her own life and intended to do so.

'To the family, I offer my condolences.’

In a statement following the inquest, Lydia’s mother Michelle said to Metro UK: ‘Lydia felt violated, hurt and disgusted at what she found – even more so at the thought of Adam being with her young niece and nephew.

‘I feel that he made her make the decision to do what she did. ‘As a family we are devastated at the loss of our beautiful daughter and for this we will never forgive him.

‘In our opinion we are left now with more unanswered questions and hope one day to find out the truth.’

After the death of Lydia, Wells was put on the sex offenders’ register for five years, charged with possessing 31 indecent photographs of children, sentenced to a 12 month community order, ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work and pay an £85 victim surcharge by the Manchester magistrates court.

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