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Meet Emmanuel Nwube - Fmr. Union Bank Director | Biggest Nigerian Fraudster by patricklaw(op): 6:44am On Feb 05, 2019
Emmanuel Nwude is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud artist. He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo, of $242 million, $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding interest, between 1995 and 1998.

His 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. After Nick Leeson's trading losses at Barings Bank, and the looting of the Iraqi Central Bank by Qusay Hussein, the crime was the third largest in banking history.

After a large-scale attack on a town in Nigeria in August 2016, Nwude was alleged to be a ringleader and was arrested on murder charges. He remains in custody.

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 enticing him with a mouth-watering deal of Nigeria’s plan to build an airport in Abuja.

Nwude impersonated Paul Ogwuma, then Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and successfully convinced Sakaguchi to "invest" in a new airport in the nation's capital, Abuja, in exchange for a $10 million commission. In August 1997, the Spanish Banco Santander wanted to take over the Banco Noroeste Brazil.

The fraud was uncovered after a December 1997 joint board meeting, in which an official from Santander inquired about why a large sum of money, two-fifths of Noroeste's total value and half of their capital, was sitting in the Cayman Islands unmonitored. This led to criminal investigations in Brazil, Britain, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United States.

To guarantee the sale to Santander, the Simonsen and Cochrane families, the owners of Banco Noroeste, paid the $242 million bill themselves. However, Banco Noroeste collapsed in 2001.
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Re: Meet Emmanuel Nwube - Fmr. Union Bank Director | Biggest Nigerian Fraudster by dannie007(m):
Uhmm life of a Fraud star!!! Ko easy ra ra!! Make God help Us!! There is no smoke without Fire!!!

Imagine a Yahoo boy back in Uni who now works in a Bank, Cashier, IT or customer service !! Next thing you see is debit alert!!!

You cry come run go bank!!
Next thing you hear fill this form!!
We will investigate it.
Story money don waka already!
Re: Meet Emmanuel Nwube - Fmr. Union Bank Director | Biggest Nigerian Fraudster by tuzeriouz(m): 7:45am On Feb 05, 2019
dannie007:
Uhmm life of a Fraud star!!! Ko easy ra ra!! Make agod help Us!! There is no smoke without Fire!!!

Imagine a Yahoo boy back in Uni who now works in a Bank and Cashier, IT dey or customer service depends!! Next thing you see is debit alert!!!

You cry and run to the bank!! Next thing you hear fill this form!! We will investigate it. Story money don waka
Wetyn dis one dey talk sef?
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