US Court Rejects Plea By Alleged Nigerian Female Internet Fraudster

US Court Rejects Plea By Alleged Nigerian Female Internet Fraudster

Judge Martha Vazquez denied Ms. Ogiozee's request because she did not follow the court's order to give information about her finances and job.

A well-known Nigerian car dealer who is accused of fraud in the U.S. was denied her request to take off electronic monitoring devices that are attached to her body.

The devices were needed for her to get out of jail on bond in her case of internet fraud.

Peoples Gazette said that the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico turned down Adesuwa Ogiozee's request because she didn't follow a court order.


Judge Martha Vazquez denied Ms. Ogiozee's request on December 13, 2022, because she did not follow the court's order to give information about her finances and job while she was on home detention for her part in a multimillion-dollar fraud, including a $560,000 romance scam, with four other people.

After being arrested on September 16, 2021, and making her first court appearance in the Eastern District of Missouri the next day, she was given a $25,000 bond and put on home detention. She was allowed to leave her Missouri home for three hours a day during the week.

The self-proclaimed No. 1 car broker in Africa was supposed to tell her pretrial officer where she was and what she was doing legally while she was on home detention, but court documents say she didn't do what the court told her to do.

"The defendant had to tell her pretrial services officer where she was, and she stayed on the location monitoring program. The defendant also had to give her pretrial services officer proof of her legal job every week, as well as any other financial documents that pretrial services asked for. All of the other rules for getting out of jail were also to stay in place.

"Defendant has been on home detention for the last eight months, but she has not followed the court's order that she show proof of legal employment and other financial paperwork that her pretrial services officer asked for," Ms. Vazquez said in court documents.

The judge then said that the court would consider Ms. Ogiozee's new motion if she followed the court's order, and set her trial date for February 5, 2024.

When The Gazette asked Ms. Ogiozee what she thought about the federal judge's decision about her not giving the required documents, she said she was never asked to do so.

U.S. federal agents had arrested Ms. Ogiozee, an accounting graduate from Delta State University Abraka, and her co-conspirators, Kayode Adeniyi, Gbemileke Bello, Abel Adeyi Daramola, and Olutayo Sunday Ogunlaja, a Nigerian living in Atlanta who is 37 years old. They were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud after stealing $560,000 from a woman in Albuquerque

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At first, federal agents said that she used the $12,000 she got from the romance scam to buy herself a Mercedes Benz. But after more research, it was soon found that Ms. Ogiozee had committed "extensive" financial crimes and was in charge of a group that stole money from people on the Internet.

Federal authorities said that the auto dealer, who was first indicted by a grand jury on December 2, 2020, moved more than $3 million in suspicious transactions through her American bank accounts and sent false Form 1040 tax claims to the Internal Revenue Service between 2015 and 2019.

But Ms. Ogiozee repeatedly denied being involved in the fraud case, even though court documents said she was. She said she had nothing to answer for because someone bought a car from her with money from a scam. She did not, however, explain why millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions were linked to her bank accounts, including some that were closed by American banks for fraud.

At least two of her lawyers have dropped her case because she lied to them over and over about her involvement in the fraud and wouldn't help them. She said that the FBI and prosecutors charged her because she is a black woman, which is why she was charged. She also said that her made-up enemies in Nigeria were telling The Gazette about her arrest, even though an American news outlet in St. Louis was the first to report it.

Also, on December 12, 2021, Mr. Adeniyi, one of Ms. Ogiozee's partners in the Internet crime ring, pleaded guilty to FBI charges and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by Judge Kea W. Riggs.

Ms. Ogiozee is the latest Nigerian to be charged in the U.S. for pretending to be a legitimate business owner while taking part in a multimillion-dollar scam. Obinwanne "Invictus" Okeke and Ramon "Hushpuppi" Abbas were recently sentenced to long prison terms for large-scale Internet fraud. For years, they posed as business professionals on the Internet and in social circles.

Source: gazettengr.com

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