Seven Nigerians and two others have been arrested for allegedly defrauding businesses and individuals of more than $3.5 million through business email compromises, a Russian oil scam, and a romance scam, a United States Justice Department’s statement showed.
Other suspects are named as Oluwaseun Adelekan, 36; Olalekan Daramola, 35; Solomon Aburekhanlen, 32; Gbenga Oyeneyin, 32; Abiola Olajumoke, 46; Temitope Omotayo, 36; 29; and Ademola Adebogun, 38. “From at least in or about July 2016, up to and including the present, OLUWASEUN ADELEKAN, a/k/a “Sean Adelekan,” OLALEKAN DARAMOLA, SOLOMON ABUREKHANLEN, GBENGA OYENEYIN, ABIOLA OLAJUMOKE, TEMITOPE OMOTAYO, BRYAN EADIE, ALBERT LUCAS, and ADEMOLA ADEBOGUN, the defendants, a co-conspirator not named as a defendant herein , and others known and unknown, participated in a scheme to defraud businesses and individuals by using false and misleading representations and omissions to induce the Victims...
While Adelakan purportedly created a “Trading Company” around July 2016 and used it to open at least one bank account in the Bronx, New York, Daramola purportedly created a fake company used it to “open at least two bank accounts” into which proceeds of the fraud were sent. OMOTAYO opened a Services Company in or about May 2017 and used to open at least one bank account in the Bronx, New York. “Proceeds of the fraud were wired and out of which proceeds ‘were transferred to DARAMOLA via an account DARAMOLA opened under the name of Shell Company-1 ;”
“ADEBOGUN assisted CC-1 maintain cc Shell Company-1 by helping to provide CC-1, and instructing CC-1 to provide a bank, fraudulent invoices as a means of legitimizing CC Shell Company-1,” the indictment statement added.