A Nigerian national was sentenced to 95 months in prison for laundering $3.1 million from fraud schemes, including business email compromise, romance scams, and unemployment insurance fraud. Oluwasegun Baiyewu, 40, of Houston, Texas, coordinated with six co-conspirators in the U.S. and Nigeria between 2020 and 2021, using encrypted apps like WhatsApp to purchase used cars with illicit funds and ship them to West Africa. In one case, Baiyewu laundered $280,000 from a Puerto Rican company defrauded via a business email scheme by paying for U.S.-based car purchases to be exported to Nigeria. A federal jury convicted him in August 2025 of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The DOJ’s Cyber-Enabled Scam Initiative, alongside the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and other agencies, investigated the case. Trial attorneys Emily Powers, Richard Greene, and Linet Olinghouse prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
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