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Four Nigerians Have Been Arrested In The United Kingdom And Sweden For Alleged Cybercrime In The United States.

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Four Nigerians were arrested in the United Kingdom and Sweden on suspicion of conducting cyber fraud and stealing public funds in the United States.

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The US Department of Justice announced this in a press release on Monday, noting that if found guilty, each defendant faces at least 20 years in prison.
The defendants – Akinola Taylor, Olayemi Adafin, Olakunle Oyenbanjo, and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe – were also charged with aggravated identity theft, and their crime was global in scope, according to the DOJ.
According to the statement, “United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of four indictments charging Akinola Taylor (Nigeria), Olayemi Adafin (United Kingdom), Olakunle Oyebanjo (Nigeria), and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe (Nigeria) with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, filing false claims with the United States, theft of public money or property,

“On November 30, 2022, Taylor, Adafin, and Runsewe were detained, and Oyebanjo was arrested on December 1, 2022.”
Taylor, Adafin, and Oyebanjo were arrested in London, while Runswewe was arrested in Malmo, Sweden.
Each will be subjected to extradition proceedings.
Foreign authorities searched Taylor and Runsewe’s homes in conjunction with their arrests.”
“If convicted, each faces a potential sentence of 20 years in federal prison for wire fraud, as well as extra penalties for the other crimes.”
The indictments also inform the defendants that the US plans to seize assets allegedly connected to the proceeds of the crime.

“According to the indictments, Taylor and Runsewe obtained unauthorised access to United States businesses’ computer servers, participated in stealing personally identifying information from those servers, and used that information to file false and fraudulent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1040, United States Individual Income Tax Returns (“Form(s) 1040″) seeking income tax refunds with the IRS,” it continued.
“Adafin and Oyebanjo aided in the collection of fraud proceeds directed to prepaid debit cards in their possession or to addresses or bank accounts they owned or had access to, and they transferred a portion of the fraud proceeds to other conspirators.”
“The xDedic Marketplace, a website that functioned for years and was used to sell access to compromised computers worldwide and personally identifiable information of US individuals, was one of the places where Taylor and Runsewe got unauthorized access to computer systems.”
To facilitate the operation of the website, the xDedic administrators strategically maintained servers all over the world.

“The xDedic Marketplace was shut down as part of a coordinated global enforcement investigation conducted by the FBI (Tampa Division), the IRS-CI (Tampa Field Office), and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.”
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THE END OF THE ROAD: Death Penalty Handed Down To Killers Of DELSU Student!.

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