Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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The United States sought the forfeiture of more than $600,000 proceeds of fraud after the suspended Ogun State governor’s aide, Abidemi Rufai, pleaded guilty to the wire fraud charges. Premium Times The US government has petitioned the District Court in Tacoma to order the seizure of Abidemi Rufai’s $604,260 in interest from his wire fraud…
Federal prosecutors in the western Washington district have appealed the release of Abidemi Rufai, a senior special assistant to Gov Dapo Abiodun accused of fraud by the Washington Department of Labor Security for unemployment fraud last year – and now a western district judge has until June 4 to review the appeal to decide. Last…
Granting Rufai bail is dangerous If he does escape to Nigeria, extradition will be extraordinarily difficult or impossible because of his ties to the Nigerian government The U.S Department of Justice (DoJ) has written a letter to the United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York, Ramon Reyes, on why it is…
A United States federal magistrate court in New York ruled Wednesday that Ogun State Governor’s Special Assistant, Abidemi Rufai, charged in last year’s $650 million unemployment fraud in Washington state cannot be released before his trial. The special aide to the Ogun State Governor, arrested Friday in New York as he attempted to leave the US, had asked a federal court to release…
The United States Secret Service has received reporting of a well-organized Nigerian fraud ring exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to commit large-scale fraud against state unemployment insurance programs DoJ Abidemi Rufai, a senior special assistant to Ogun State governor on housing has been arrested in the United State for Covid-19 pandemic related wire fraud, the US…
