U.S Court Sentences Nigerian Man to 3.5 Years in Jail

A U.S. federal judge has sentenced a Nigerian,  Kayode Adeniyi to three and half years’ imprisonment. Mr Adeniyi, alias Mickey Marley, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and fraud in connection with computers before Judge Kea W. Riggs on December 12, 2021.

“The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of 41 months,” Judge Riggs ruled. Mr Adeniyi also faces deportation after his terms, which would run concurrently at Cibola County Correctional Center.

The FBI had arrested a popular auto dealer Adesuwa Ogoizee, alongside Mr Adeniyi, Olutayo Sunday Ogunlaja, a 37-year-old Nigerian based in Atlanta, and two others. A grand jury had indicted them for wire fraud, including bilking $560,000 from a female victim resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico.