Nigerian Man Jailed 30 Months in US Over Multimillion-Dollar Email Fraud Proceeds
A US federal court has sentenced Edikan Adiakpan, a 35-year-old Nigerian national living in Houston, to 30 months in prison for transmitting proceeds from a business email compromise scheme. Prosecutors said Adiakpan used a luxury car company he controlled between 2020 and 2022 to receive and transfer fraud proceeds for others, keeping a percentage as payment. The scheme targeted more than 10 victims through emails designed to impersonate suppliers and creditors. One Mississippi trailer company reportedly lost $927,080 after sending money to accounts controlled by the fraudsters. Court records stated that Adiakpan deposited and redeemed cashier's cheques containing $359,000 of the victim's funds. He will serve three years of supervised release after his prison term. A second Nigerian defendant, Ayobami Omoniyi, was earlier sentenced to 32 months for his role in the scheme.
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