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This comes days after the U.S government alleged that the surety herself "is a suspect in an investigation into an email...
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 is currently enmeshed in a $350,000 COVID-19 unemployment fraud in the United States.
Suspect in Washington unemployment fraud case is denied bail By Paul Roberts, The Seattle Times Published: May 20, 2021, 7:41pm Share: SEATTLE — A federal magistrate in New York ruled Wednesday that a Nigerian citizen charged in last year’s $650 million unemployment fraud in Washington cannot be released before his trial. Abidemi Rufai, 42, arrested Friday in New York as he prepared to fly to Nigeria, had asked a federal court to release him to the custody of his brother, who is an attorney in New York, according to federal prosecutors and Abidemi Rufai’s private attorney...