Olaniyi Makinde Victor (right), with his lawyer, A.A. Adetunji (left)
Olaniyi Victor Makinde, a 26 year old serial internet fraudster,is top on the wanted list of the United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. Makinde has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Trouble
started for Makinde when investigations revealed that he had been
defrauding several foreigners, especially Americans in marriage scam and
related offences, through the internet. He was also accused of
masterminding serious hacking practices against an American online pay
roll services company, Intuit, in California.
A source in FBI had hinted iReports-ng that Makinde who is also known as
Olaniyi Jones and Andrea Bradley was wanted by the San Francisco
Division of the FBI. According to the source, the US government viewed
the activities of Makinde seriously and as such had to send three FBI
agents including a supervisory special agent and two special agents, to
Nigeria last quarter to meet with their Nigerian counterparts over the
arrest of the fraudster. The fraudster was eventually arrested on
September 6 last year.
iReports-ng
learnt that the FBI agents were also joined by another official of the
US consulate Lagos to obtain statements from Makinde when he was
eventually arrested by EFCC operatives ahead of their request for his
extradition to the US to face trial with some of his American
accomplices in the serial fraud. The Nigerian authorities were said to
have reached an agreement with the FBI agents to prosecute Makinde in
Nigeria before considering handing him over to the US government. He was
said to have been arraigned before a high court judge in Akure on
November 26 last year over a $620,225.04 fraud and later remanded at a
prison custody in the state capital.
It
was however drama galore on Tuesday, January 11, when the 26-year old
internet fraudster already in custody at the Olokuta medium prison,
Akure , was docked again by EFCC, over a fresh $150,000 scam.
Makinde
is a fresh graduate of the University of Ado Ekiti where he graduated
with second class honours in Economics from UNAD. He started his 419
heist early 2009 while he was still an undergraduate.
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