New Jersey, USA : A Nigerian and four of his accomplices have been sentenced to jail for different cases of bank fraud and conspiracy. The Nigerian national living in Sewaren, NJ, was sentenced by a jury Attorney John P. Kacavas.
Oluwaseun Adekoya, 29 had communicated with an undercover agent between September 26, 2013 and October 2, 2013. The undercover agent had assumed the identity of one of Oluwaseun business partners. The undercover agent promised Oluwaseun that he would help him create counterfeit ATM cards which he would use to obtain money from different part of New Hamsphire.
On October 1, 2013, Oluwaseun sent Darrell Harris, Adebayo Adegbesan, Kamau Brown and Aubrie Banks to Manchester, New Jersey to meet with the undercover agent. The undercover agent would give each of the individuals 40 ATM cards each, and would make a transaction of $960,000 ATM bank fraud.
In the early hours of October, 2. The men had set out to different ATM machines to withdraw, but were arrested. Oluwaseun Adekoya had not flown to Manchester at the time of the arrest of the four men, but police arrested him at his home in Sewaren, New Jersey.
Two of the men arrested have testified against Oluwaseun Adekoya, and all of them also pleads guilty to the crime.
The United secret secret service with assistance from the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the course.