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Abidemi Rufai, a Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, who is charged in Washington state over unemployment scam, has been
of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, maintains that he is a man of integrity. Mr Rufai said he would not have been appointed as a senior aide to Mr Abiodun if he was not morally upright. This claim was contained in his filing at a U.S. court where he is battling to have the suspended bail earlier granted him restored. The suspect has been in detention since his arrestat John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on May 14 for pending $350,000 fraud charges instituted against him. Although Mr Rufai was granted bail by a magistrate judge of the District Court of Eastern New York on...
Abidemi Rufai argues through his lawyer that he is entitled to bail because his case is not one designated for “mandatory...
❚ You already voted! Abidemi Rufai, an aide of Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, could be facing a fresh charge after federal prosecutors in the United States alleged he also sought to defraud the Internal Revenue Service of nearly $1.6 million. The 42-year-old has already been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his scheme to steal over $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department. Prosecutors, on Friday, filed a letter with US district judge Benjamin Settle, saying that in the last few days, IRS...
Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, is to be arraigned on fraud charges before a United States Courthouse, in Tacoma, Washington, on June 8, 2021, PREMIUM TIMES reports. He will appear before Theresa Fricke, a U.S. magistrate. This development comes after a federal grand jury ratified the charges involving conspiracy, wire fraud and “aggravated identity theft”. He allegedly used the identity theft as a scheme “to steal over $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department.” A grand jury in the U.S. is a group of citizens empowered by law to conduct l...