Feds: Unemployment fraud suspect tried to bilk IRS of $1.6M
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A suspended Nigerian government official accused of stealing...
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A suspended Nigerian government official accused of stealing...
Mr Rufai allegedly filed 652 fraudulent tax returns, seeking approximately $1.6 million in fraudulent tax refunds.
He is to face charges for aggravated identity theft.
3 min read Abidemi Rufai’s brother refused to stand surety for him in the $350,000 fraud case against him in the United States (U.S.), PREMIUM TIMES can report. Mr Rufai, a suspended aideof Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, was arrestedby the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on May 14. He was on May 19 granted a $300,000 bail by a New York magistrate’s court, but the Acting U.S. Attorney, Tessa Gorman, on May 24, filed an “emergency motion” at the U.S. Western District Court of Washington, Tacoma, “to stay the ord...
Mr Rufai, who is an aide to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, is currently enmeshed in $350,000 COVID-19 unemployment fraud in the United States.