The United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have arrested a 36 year old Nigerian Man for using a Ghanaian passport to defraud some American citizens of a whopping 1 Million Dollars.
Arinze Michael Ozor, with a dual citizenship of America and Nigeria and who resides in Bowie, Maryland has already pleaded guilty to charges forgery and false use of passport to open an account for purposes of money laundering.
His guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur; Special Agent in Charge Jennifer C. Boone of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Edwin Guard of the Washington Field Office of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).
In his guilty plea agreement cited by BestNewsGH.com, Arinze Michael Ozor used at least two fraudulent passports as part of a money laundering conspiracy to open eight “drop accounts” to receive the proceeds from fraud schemes, including business e-mail compromise schemes and romance fraud schemes.
BestNewsGH.com sources say the funds deposited in the accounts were largely disseminated to other entities as part of the conspiracy by Ozor and some other accomplices.
Ozor admitted using a Ghanaian passport with the name Kelvin Green and opened five accounts between December 2017 and January 2018.
Further checks revealed that although the passport had the details for Kelvin Green, the picture on it was that of Ozor.
Ozor was said to have met a banker with one of the banks which froze his account on suspicion of fraudulent activity, using the same Ghanaian passport to buttress his request to be given access to the account.
From March 23, 2018 through May 1, 2018, Ozor admitted using a Beninese passport in the name of Jacob Hessou to open accounts with three additional banks.
Just as in the case of the Ghanaian passport, the Beninese passport contained purported identifiers for Hessou, but contained Ozor’s photograph.
Investigation concluded that Ozor does not have a validly issued Ghanaian or Beninese passport.
Ozor who faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison was said have laundered more than $976,000 from the eight accounts he opened using the fraudulent passports.
Source: BestNewsGH.com
