Nigerian businessman in $2.5m US fraud knows fate in September

The sentencing date was set after Nwadavid pleaded guilty to ‘mail fraud, aiding and abetting money laundering, and money laundering’ before a district court, according to a statement obtained from the US Department of Justice on Sunday.

PUNCH Metro reported in April that 35-year-old Nwadavid was arrested upon his arrival in the US via a United Kingdom flight to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Before his arrest, a federal grand jury in Boston had, in 2024, indicted him on charges of mail fraud and money laundering.

According to court documents, he was alleged to have participated in romance scams that tricked victims into sending money abroad between 2016 and 2019.

It added, “To conceal the ultimate recipient of the victims’ funds, a victim from Massachusetts was tricked into receiving funds from five other victims around the United States.

“The victim then passed the funds to Nwadavid through a series of cryptocurrency transactions.