It was also shown that he pleaded guilty to his illegal activities from approximately 2009 to February 2013 after he was busted by an undercover agent located in New Hampshire.
He devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud, and for obtaining money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretences, representations, and promises, the U.S. government said in one of the documents.
It added, “Between on or about February 26 and 27, 2013, in the District of New Hampshire and elsewhere, the defendant IDRIS SOYEMI in furtherance of, and for the purpose of executing, such scheme and artifice to defraud, transmitted and caused to be transmitted in interstate commerce, from New York to New Hampshire, wire communications, including writings, signals, and sounds, specifically emails, for the purpose of executing the scheme to defraud, to the undercover agent in New Hampshire.
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“He asked the undercover agent for a means of identification of another person, namely, six Social Security Numbers and Dates of Birth after he provided the undercover agent with the names and addresses of six (6) individuals in the United States whose Social Security Numbers and Dates of Birth he wanted.”
While the years of jail term he served is not clear, the court transcript obtained by this newspaper showed that Mr Soyemi pleaded guilty to the fraud charges ”when asked on three different occasions by the court”.