A U.S. court sentenced Nigerian national Nosa Edokpaigbe to five years in prison for a $1.4 million COVID-19 wire fraud scheme. He must pay over $1.4 million in restitution and faces deportation after his sentence.
Edokpaigbe admitted to using stolen identities and fictitious businesses to fraudulently obtain pandemic relief funds. He employed sophisticated methods, including AI-generated images, to bypass security and conceal his actions between 2020 and 2021.