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Nchara: Nigerian (SW) criminal gangs busted yet again

http://naijanet.com/news/source/2009/sep/9/1000.html
Naijanet.com

Posted Tuesday, September 8, 2009


Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota: 11 Nigerians face federal charges for credit card scam

BOB VON STERNBERG

Eleven people have been charged in federal court in the Twin Cities with fraud for a counterfeit credit card scam that allegedly netted them more than $650,000.


The defendants were charged last week with using the bogus cards to withdraw the cash from more than 170 automatic teller machines in the metro area.

According to the criminal complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court, the defendants obtained personal information about customers of Capital One Bank from an online source based in the Ukraine.

With the stolen information in hand, the defendants allegedly manufactured the counterfeit cards with that information. They were then able to obtain new personal ID numbers from the bank which allowed them to withdraw $652,205 from the teller machines.

According to the complaint, some of the stolen money was converted into cashier checks and used to purchase vehicle parts or vehicles with salvage titles; the vehicles were then shipped to Nigeria, and sold at inflated prices.

Some of the defendants allegedly recruited Nigerian residents in Minneapolis to buy vehicles at auto auctions, giving them cash to make the purchases.

According to a U.S. Secret Service affidavit, one of the defendants bragged about how he could not "get caught conducting his illegal activity" because he was "very good at covering his tracks."

Charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of access device fraud are Adekunle Kayode Ayeni, 27, Yewande Mariam Sholebo, unknown age, Adewale Alba Alli, unknown age, Olayemi Lateef Banjoko, unknown age, Idowu Ayinla Sadiq, unknown age, Abiodun Banjoko, unknown age, and Oyetoyin Oseni Atobatele, unknown age, all of Fridley; along with Bashiru Adelumola Fowoshere, 36, and Titilayo Abidewi Fowoshere, unknown age, both of Ramsey; Oriyomi Enitan Olowosago, unknown age, Brooklyn Park; and Ajibola Alli Fowoshere, 34, address unknown.

Eight of the 11 were arrested last Friday, when they also made their initial court appearance. Three remain at large.
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kingoflag: They hate you so much that every other place on earth is unsafe for u, save their region. Everywhere else the Igbos go they're hated, killed, harrased, asked to leave....you name it, Kano, Zamfara, Adamawa, the whole of Northern Nigeria, Banjul, Nairobi, Durban, Bangkok,Johannesburgh, Capetown, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi etc I do not see any Yoruba states on there, but it's a known fact that Igbos are not harrased by them yet they despise them even though they're allowed to live and raise families in that region, peacefully. I think the hate some have been fed from birth has made them looney. Either that or they were just born with evil in their soul from jump.

cjrane: Is it because bestview is telling the truth and you can't handle it?
How about Aigbofa,Agbameta and other faceless bunch?

You may like Ngige and i used to, but he is not the best suited person to rule Anambra. A lot is at stake and the yoruba people that hate everything Igbo are prepared to spend their money for him, and all you sit there and tell us to take it? Look at Osun Defenders that have never written anything positive about any Igboman is Ngige's chief propaganda outfit?

I would wholeheartedly trust a British or Kenyan to rule Anambra than the Islamic yorubarized APC!
It's just too risky to put the fate of Ndigbo in the hands of people that hate us so much and wish us dead at every point in Nigeria's history.

Katsumoto: Shut up you dunderhead.

It is dolts like you that don't understand what social consciousness is all about.

And the Nigerians who are being killed in Asia for drug dealing are not giving Nigeria a bad name?

Or is it those that kidnap foreigners, brothers, mothers, octogenarians, and a school bus filled with children that aren't giving Nigeria a bad name?

What about those that have turned their region into a war zone? They are projecting positivity in your deluded mind?

Come back with one more moronic and idotic reply and I will slay you so bad, you will be forced to keep away from NL for a month only to return with a new ID. Oponu


BTW, don't forget to tell us what your family has contributed that is greater than what Soyinka has contributed.

bestview:
You still do not get it. We are more than comfortable with the APGA-PDP collabo. APC is synonymous with evil..

We vote APGA at state level and PDP at national level. We do not want to have anything whatsoever to do with the Islamic Yorobar APC..

Katsumoto: That is it in a nutshell.

It is time for Yoruba folks to stop standing up for all groups because you can do right by them for 99 times but one wrong by them makes you a demon.

I hope Soyinka NEVER speaks about Nigerian issues any longer. It is time for him to lend his voice towards regionalism and other pertinent structural issues.

bestview:
We prefer Obi dictating to Obiano, than the Islamic APC dictating what will happen in Anambra..

Take your evil party away from us..

grafikii: Mr. Uzo Igbonwa, ACN, Anambra State , APC
Deputy National Youth Leader

Sharon Ikeazor, CPC, Anambra State, APC
National
Women Leader

Senator Annie Okonkwo, APGA, Anambra
State,
APC National Deputy Chairman

Senator Ositsa Izunaso, APGA, Imo State,
APC
National Organizing Secretary

Sunday Chukwu, APGA, Ebonyi State, APC
Deputy National Secretary

Dr Anyim Nyerere, APGA, Abia State, APC
National Vice Chairman (South-East)

Sir Romanus Egbunike, DPP, Imo State, APC
Deputy National Welfare Secretary.

EDUCATE YOURSELF

BigBelleControl: You are the same person that opened a thread on Nairaland saying that it is full of Yoruba tribalists. I wonder what you are, punk?

Trail ii: for your dreams. Uno we are ur boss

omiobo: Don't hate site,hate the tribalists on the site.