Heritagenewsng reports that two Nigerians whose names are, Olushola Afolabi and Olugbeminiyi Aderibigbe have been arrested in the United States in connection to wire fraud and other charges involving $25,000 in unemployment requests.
The two Nigerians were indicted for conniving with co-conspirators to dupe the Illinois Department of Employment Security and the US Government via a false unemployment insurance request.
As contained in the indictment document, they connived with their collaborators using stolen identities to arrange unemployment insurance requests and wired millions of dollars into bank accounts control by the syndicates.
Further in the document, the fraudsters purchased money orders and withdrew cash at different locations in the Northern District of Alabama and elsewhere. The document filed at the US District Court in Northern Alabama has been endorsed by a grand jury.
It was reported by Heritagenewsng that the crime was committed from October 2020 to June 29, 2021, when the accusation was filed. It was also learned that only $25,000 was traced to Afolabi and Aderibigbe out of the millions of dollars allegedly duped.
In conclusion, about $18,000 was wired between 7th December 2020, and 24th February 2021 and was traced to Afolabi while $7,000 was wired to Aderibigbe between 29th December 2020 and 8th January 2021.