Two Nigerians has been sentenced a total of more than 14 years in jail for their role in a 25 million pounds love scam.Emmanuel Adanemhen, 50, and Eduwu Obasuyi, 40,pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to their part in sophisticated fraud and money laundering scams.
Emmanuel Adanemhen,who came to the UK as Asylum seeker, used the identity of a dead Portuguese man to open accounts from where he laundered money from fraud which includes,overseas lottery wins, shipping frauds,website scams,and false inheritance scams,
Obasuyi, of Friern Road, East Dulwich, London, who was detained as he was about to board a plane from London to Lagos, Nigeria,led the police to Adanemhen.
Both men were discovered to have moved over 4 million pounds from their various account from money which which came from Germany, Norway, Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada, United Arab Emirates and across the USA.
An elderly victim from Florida was conned out of 2.9 million US dollars with the total lost by victims is estimated by police to be in excess of £25 million
Obasuyi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to enter into a money laundering agreement. Adanemhen was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and Obasuyi was sentenced to seven years.
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