A son of a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army who was placed on the Wanted List of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for internet scam has turned himself in at the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The man, Felix Osilama Okpoh, the son of retired Colonel Garuba Okpoh, turned himself in at the Lagos zonal office of the commission in company of his parents on Friday, September 18.
According to a statement by the anti-graft commission, Okpoh was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigations list in a $6 million internet scam which he and others were said to have committed in 2019.
Okpoh alongside Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode and Nnamdi Orson Benson were declared wanted by the FBI in 2019 for their alleged involvement in a Business Email Compromise scheme that defrauded over 70 businesses in the United States of over $6m.
The suspect allegedly provided over 40 bank accounts to his conspirators, which were used to receive fraudulent wire transfers from their victims totalling over $1m.
He was on August 21, 2019 indicted in the United States District Court of Nebraska on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
However, Okpoh on Friday, September 18, 2020, turned himself in at the Lagos Zonal Office of the commission in company with his parents, Colonel Garuba Okpoh and Mrs Justina Okpoh.
Okpoh during interrogation said he made the move to surrender himself to the EFCC out of respect he had for his parents and his resolve to be morally upright.
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