Tag: Abidemi Rufai

Abiodun’s Ex-Aide,Rufai Bags Five-Year Imprisonment In US Over Wire Fraud

ADEOLA YUSUF

Abidemi Rufai,Ogun Governor’s ex-aide has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a District Court in Western Tacoma, Washington, United States for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. This was contained in a statement by the United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington, on Monday. The statement said in part that Rufai, “A 45-year-old resident of Lekki, Nigeria, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to five years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his attempt to steal nearly $2.4m from the United…

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Ogun Gov Abiodun’s ex-aide, Abidemi Rufai, pleads guilty to $350,000 fraud in US

Ganiyu Amodu

Abidemi Rufai is a former Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun. He has pleaded guilty to his role in a $350,763 heist in the United States. According to The Seattle Times, 45-year-old Rufai pleaded guilty on Tuesday in US District Court in Tacoma to charges that he used stolen Social Security numbers and other personal data to file $350,763 in fake claims for pandemic unemployment benefits in 2020. The medium also quoted the US Attorney’s Office in Seattle as saying that Rufai pleaded guilty to…

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Yahoo-Yahoo, Paedophiles Take Over Ogun State Politics, By Tunde Adesanya

Tunde Adesanya

“Our governor, who is currently battling allegation of criminal indictment in the United States, also needs to be very careful”     We thought we had seen it all on the incursion of Yahoo-yahoo boys into Nigeria’s political arena after Abidemi Rufai, an aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, was arrested for wire fraud in the United States last year, sending a loud, clear message that the day of recompense was in the offing for internet fraudsters. But we’re mistaken! As preparations for the 2023 general elections are…

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US court Shifts trial of Ogun Gov’s suspended Aide, Abidemi Rufai, to 2022

Wonuola Olujobi

The fraud trial of suspended aide to Ogun Governor Abidemi Rufai, who was indicted for alleged conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, has been postponed to 2022. A fresh ruling of the court has postponed the commencement of Rufai’s trial by five months. Rufai was arrested at the JFK airport in New York on May 14 over alleged $350,000 COVID-19 unemployment fraud in the United States. The Nation had reported the prosecutor submitted 97,000-page materials at the US District for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma, on July…

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‘Surety for Ogun Governor’s aide arrested in US also a suspected fraudster’

Wonuola Olujobi

  United States Magistrate Judge in Eastern District of New York, Ramon Reyes has received a letter from the US Department of Justice, claiming that the surety provided by Abidemi Rufai, the suspended aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, is also a suspected fraudster. Rufai, who was arrested while trying to get out of the US on May 14, has been accused of allegedly using the identities of more than 100 Washington residents to steal more than $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department…

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How Ogun Gov’s Aide, Abidemi Rufai, defrauded Americans of $350,000 – FBI

Wonuola Olujobi

    Details of how Abidemi Rufai walked into the FBI’s trap, got arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport New York   READ ALSO:11 Banks in trouble as EFCC probes link with Dubai-bound Nigerian caught with 2,886 ATM cards ABOVE 45: Working 8 hours per day can cause Stroke, Heart disease – WHO JUST IN: EFCC Takes Over Nestoil Chairman, Ernest Azudialu’s Ikoyi Mansion   The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation has given details of how a Senior Special Assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, Abidemi Rifai, defrauded…

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