Nigerian leader of money laundering ring sentenced in United States

Afeez Adebara’s group, the United States Department of Justice, said defrauded multiple victims, including elderly individuals across the United States, and caused losses of at least $2.5 million.

Adebara pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering on Nov. 3, 2020.

Court documents and testimony, between 2017 and November 2019, Adebara and co-conspirators knowingly concealed the proceeds of a romance scam operation by moving money between and among multiple bank accounts that were opened under various aliases using fake passports and other fraudulent identification documents to obscure the source of the funds and the identities of the co-conspirators.