US court sentences Nigerian to 4 years imprisonment over N340m email scam
Emeka Ndukwu will serve four years in jail in the United States.
The 46-year-old Nigerian-American has been found guilty of engaging in email scams.
He was said to have defrauded his victims of more than $900,000 (over N340 million).
The FBI said Ndukwu tricked seven companies in the United States and abroad into wiring more than $900,000 into accounts controlled by various co-conspirators.
An accomplice of the Bowie Maryland-based convict, Chuka Mbonu, is said to be at large.
“Ndukwu, a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria, pleaded guilty in April 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of money laundering conspiracy,” the FBI said in a statement.
“He was sentenced by the Honourable Timothy J. Kelly. Following his prison term, he will be placed on three years of supervised release. The judge also ordered Ndukwu to pay $791,870 in restitution to the companies.
“Additionally, Judge Kelly ordered Ndukwu to forfeit a 2014 Mercedes-Benz GL450 and to pay a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $429,848, representing the share of the criminal proceeds that Ndukwu personally obtained”.
