Crime
26-yr-old Nigerian man bags 57 months imprisonment for wire fraud
A US-based Nigerian man, Olamide Yusuf Bakare has been sentenced to 4 years & 9 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 26-year-old, who pleaded guilty in January 2023 was sentenced on July 25th in Maryland by U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert.
According to court documents, between June 2020 & July 2021, Bakare, along with co-defendants Quazeem Owolabi Adeyinka, Ayodeji Jonathan Sangode and others participated in a conspiracy to submit fraudulent unemployment insurance & Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims to the States of Maryland & California.
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