$6M INTERNET SCAM: SUSPECT ON FBI LIST TURNS HIMSELF IN
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has commenced an
investigation of one Felix Osilama Okpoh, an alleged fraudster on the
watchlist of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI, for his
involvement in a $6m internet fraud.
Okpoh, alongside Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, Abiola
Ayorinde Kayode, and Nnamdi Orson Benson, had been declared wanted by
the FBI sometime in 2019 for their alleged involvement in a Business
Email Compromise, BEC, scheme that defrauded over 70 businesses in the
United States, of over $6,000,000 USD.
The suspect allegedly provided over forty bank accounts to his
conspirators, which were used to receive fraudulent wire transfers from
their victims totaling over $1,000, 000USD.
He was, on August 21, 2019, indicted in the United States District
Court, District of Nebraska, on charges of conspiracy to commit wire
fraud.
However, Okpoh, on Friday, September 18, 2020, turned himself in at the
Lagos Zonal Office of the Commission in company with his parents, Col.
Garuba Okpoh(retd.) and Chief (Mrs.) Justina Okpoh.
Okpoh, during interrogation, said he made the move to surrender himself
to the Commission out of respect he had for his parents and his resolve
to be morally upright.
