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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by HausaOverlord: 1:52pm On Jul 23, 2017
jay2pee:
Hahahahaha.... We Igbos get brain Shaa.... Who else can have the mind and sense to do this
God bless u jare, finally I don see flatinho wey dey own up to him heritage, efcc will never see u, Indian police will never see u, chinko police will never catch u, Ise.

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by DPsalmist2(m): 1:55pm On Jul 23, 2017
Whew! If that was me, I would disappear from the face of the Earth. 3yrs before anyone realized they were scammed? That is more than enough time to fully settle in a new identity and country.

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by HausaOverlord: 1:56pm On Jul 23, 2017
Blueeyedboi:
...How about shutting up that hole you have on your face you deluded,sister-shagging,garbage-eating self-servicer!!!!!!
bros but shey na lie him dey lie? Why u dey snap picture inside bathroom with shades on undecided

Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by LexngtonSteele: 1:56pm On Jul 23, 2017
PointZerom:



A fool will continue to be folly in as much as there are some 42 other fools cheering him.

Keep wailing. It suits you...ODE tongue

Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by bluecircle470: 1:56pm On Jul 23, 2017
jay2pee:
Hahahahaha.... We Igbos get brain Shaa.... Who else can have the mind and sense to do this

Exactly no one except the igbos.

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Blueeyedboi(m): 1:56pm On Jul 23, 2017
LexngtonSteele:


We pray BIAFRA is actualized today. There would still be crime, YES, but it would reduce by maybe 95% grin

5 SE States responsible for 95% of crimes is too high. I saw the pie-chart angry
...Its been so long you almost said something reasonable that even people of that era have become fossilized.... undecided
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Jetleeee: 1:58pm On Jul 23, 2017
Cubeet:




Okay...........Okay............Okay................grin cheesy

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Jonbeezy(m): 1:59pm On Jul 23, 2017
Choi! father Of all Gee boys!!

Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by zinny377(f): 1:59pm On Jul 23, 2017
Chinekeme! Am speechless...non existent airport shocked

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by teelaw4life(m): 2:01pm On Jul 23, 2017
Jetleeee:


Mr Akhshtar would later mention that potor people developed airports

Hehehehe...na dem dey front every time. grin grin grin

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Jaqenhghar: 2:03pm On Jul 23, 2017
See how many are applauding a thief. That is why when your governors and politicians rob you blind, people shouldnt talk. when monies meant for your welfare enters one man's pockets, you have no right to talk instead applaud it.
and they wonder why their country is so fùcked up

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Jetleeee: 2:03pm On Jul 23, 2017
teelaw4life:


Hehehehe...na dem dey front every time. grin grin grin

Lol..... Yeye pipu cheesy

Maaan....you need to keep an eye on these potor crime threads. I'd love to see you repost that comment lol

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Nobody: 2:04pm On Jul 23, 2017
zinny377:
Chinekeme! Am speechless...non existent airport shocked
Lovely picture wink
Sent you a pm
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Blueeyedboi(m): 2:04pm On Jul 23, 2017
zinny377:
Chinekeme! Am speechless...non existent airport shocked
... grin grin...Nne kedu...you've got a nice sense of humour!!
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Jonbeezy(m): 2:05pm On Jul 23, 2017
Jetleeee:


Mr Akhshtar would later mention that potor people developed airports

Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Nobody: 2:05pm On Jul 23, 2017
martineverest:
its really sad that this tribe is just criminally minded


y cant nigerians stop these internet fraud?
Sir/ma I don't want to know, do me a favour and go re-read and re-digest the post. It happened in the 90's. There was no internet. Ok #IAMOUTTAHERE

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Brugo(m): 2:07pm On Jul 23, 2017
Nwude was a Bank Director! Haba! Crime is in his blood.

We cannot blame this on marginalisation, poverty, poor education or economic meltdown (or any of the excuses igbos readily give for their criminal tendencies), no! This one is in his blood.

They have indeed been developing Nigeria since 1960.

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by HausaOverlord: 2:09pm On Jul 23, 2017
Blueeyedboi:
...What an idi.ot...I don't think you've been in a bathroom all your life....fizzle away en never quote me again in your miserable life..F00000l
bros no vex, no be fight na, the place resemble bathroom, oya come help me develop sambisa abeg, development never touch dem for that area.
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by gonkin(m): 2:14pm On Jul 23, 2017
In my town 98% of guys are into internet scam
See as them dey hail 419er for my town. Some kids drop out of school because of this fraud. What really annoying is that talented graduates are used as example of "who go school still dey suffer" Who do 419 dey enjoy.
One even called me a fool saying "I dont know how to use my talent, who no sabi computer dey pick money, u wen sabi dey waste your life" cuz i repair computers as a side job.

We need a resolution cuz when foreigners hear nigeria the first thing that comes to their mind is fraudsters before the even think of where its located in the world

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by toyecoach(m): 2:15pm On Jul 23, 2017
Abyolah:
Here is the story of Emmanuel Nwude who committed the largest fraud in Nigeria by selling a non-existent airport to a Brazilian for $242 million between 1995 and 1998.

Emmanuel Nwude carried out one of the the biggest banking fraud in the world.

The rise of internet fraud commonly known as 419 is one phenomenon Nigeria has come to be associated it. Before internet fraud became a global issue, Nwude had committed one of the biggest scams in the world.

Specifically, his fraud was the third largest banking scam in the world after the Nick Leeson's trading losses at Barings Bank, and the looting of the Iraqi Central Bank by Qusay Hussein.

How was Emmanuel Nwude able to carry out this jaw-dropping scam and convince Nelson Sakaguchi who was the director of the bank to part with so much money for the purchase of an airport?

Nwude was a former director of Union Bank of Nigeria and this position made him privy to some links, information and documents that other persons would not be aware of. He impersonated the then governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Paul Ogwuma, and connected with Sakaguchi informing him of a mouth-watering deal of Nigeria’s plan to build an airport in Abuja.

Nwude, pretending to be the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, told Sakaguchi that he stood of chance of pocketing $10 million commission when the deal passed through. Sakaguchi paid $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding interest.

Nwude’s accomplices were Emmanuel Ofolue, Nzeribe Okoli, and Obum Osakwe, along with the husband and wife duo, Christian Ikechukwu Anajemba and Amaka Anajemba, with Christian later being assassinated.

The criminal gang was able to convince the director of the Brazilian bank to part with the money.

How did Sakaguchi find out he was a victim of one of the largest scam in the world?

In 1997, the Spanish Banco Santander wanted to take over the Banco Noroeste and a joint board meeting was held in December of that year. Officials of the Spanish bank noted that half of the Brazilian bank’s capital was at Cayman Islands unmonitored. This raised questions as this was two-fifths of Noroeste's total value.

Investigation began and was carried out in Brazil, Britain, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United States. Although the sale of the Bank still went on as the owners of the bank paid $242 million bill, the nak still collapsed in 2001.

The birth of the EFCC

In 2002, the then president, Olusegun Obasanjo saw to the establishment of an anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Nwude’s fraud case one of the first to be investigated and in 2004, all members of the gang were arraigned before an Abuja High Court on 86 counts of "fraudulently seeking advance fees" and 15 counts of bribery related to the case . Although they pleaded not guilty, they were warned not to attempt to bribe court officials as it was suspected that money was going round.

In 2005, Amaka confessed to helping Anajemba and was asked to repay $25.5 million and also sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Nwude attempted to bribe Nuhu Ribadu, the then chairman of the EFCC, with $75,000 cash but the latter refused and Nwude was charged with attempted bribery as well as attempt to kidnap a prosecuting witness.

Following Sakaguchi's witness, Nwude finally pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five concurrent sentences of five years and was also asked to pay $10 million fine to the federal government.

He was released from prison in 2006 and filed a case to reclaim his assets insisting some of them were acquired before the criminal act. He has so far been able to reclaim $167 million.

Aftermath

A land dispute in the town of Ukpo in the Dunukofia area with Abagana community turned bloody when over 200 men invaded the community killing four policemen and the security guard at the construction site in 2016. The Anambra state government fingered Nwude as the ringleader and he was subsequently arrested and arraigned on 27 charges including murder and terrorism. He is being held at Awka prison as the court case is still on.

While Nwude’s criminal exploit was not the first in the country, it signified the rise in international financial crime and popularise the advanced fee fraud syndrome with Nigeria's name associated with it.

Source: http://www.247nigerianewsupdate.co/2017/07/meet-nwude-biggest-nigerian-fraudster.html

what a shame, it's high time we go back to the old days when people worship integrity
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Nobody: 2:21pm On Jul 23, 2017
i hope there is still a daily supply of watery beans for this guy in prison? hope no useless judge has shortened his sentence?
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Nobody: 2:21pm On Jul 23, 2017
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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Nobody: 2:21pm On Jul 23, 2017
Afonjas u people should come n learn work oooo no be those una jazz mumu yahoo we dey only bring moet money

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Bizibi(m): 2:22pm On Jul 23, 2017
jay2pee:
Hahahahaha.... We Igbos get brain Shaa.... Who else can have the mind and sense to do this
mtcheeeeew

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Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Nobody: 2:23pm On Jul 23, 2017
gonkin:
In my town 98% of guys are into internet scam
See as them dey hail 419er for my town. Some kids drop out of school because of this fraud. What really annoying is that talented graduates are used as example of "who go school still dey suffer" Who do 419 dey enjoy.
One even called me a fool saying "I dont know how to use my talent, who no sabi computer dey pick money, u wen sabi dey waste your life" cuz i repair computers as a side job.

We need a resolution cuz when foreigners hear nigeria the first thing that comes to their mind is fraudsters before the even think of where its located in the world
Dont mind those guys, by the time they get picked up by the police u'll be the one to laugh last
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Nobody: 2:23pm On Jul 23, 2017
ayenitre:
It's shameful that the more you steal the lighter sentence you get. Like Bernie Maddof, this guy should rot in jail for stealing.
You should read d story of d man that stole 2 tubers of yam.
Re: Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian Biggest Fraudster Sold Non-existent Airport For $242M by Phi001(m): 2:25pm On Jul 23, 2017
Other than Victor Lustig's 'selling' the Eiffel Tower two times(technically once, the second scam failed) for 250,000 francs, I don't think there's been a greater scam than this...

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