A Nigerian, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem,
accused of obtaining more than 125,000
stolen taxpayer identities from across the
United States has been convicted in federal
court in Oregon.
He was found guilty on 19 counts of mail
and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft
and conspiracy to commit mail and wire
fraud.
A jury in Medford returned the verdicts
Friday against Emmanuel Oluwatosin
Kazeem, 34, who lived most recently in
Bowie, Maryland.
Prosecutors say Kazeem bought over 91,000
of the identities from a Vietnamese hacker
who got into a database belonging to an
Oregon company called CICS Employment
Services. Most of the personal information
belonged to people living in Oregon and
Washington and were used to file
fraudulent tax returns between 2012 and
2015.
Over 2,800 fraudulent returns were linked
to Kazeem with attempted refunds in excess
of $26 million and actual losses to the
federal government of nearly $7 million.
IRS criminal investigators traced more than
2,000 wire transfers involving $2.1 million
dollars in fraudulent tax refunds wired to
Nigeria by Kazeem and his co-conspirators,
prosecutors said.
Kazeem passed many of the identities to his
co-conspirators located in the Atlanta,
Georgia, area and Nigeria. He instructed
them how to use the stolen personal
information to get electronic filing PINs from
the Internal Revenue Service in the
taxpayers’ names to file tax returns. He
taught them how to create fictitious W-2
wage documents and acquire and register
prepaid debit cards in the taxpayers’ names
to receive refunds, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors submitted evidence that
Kazeem had invested more than $190,000 in
cash into the recent purchase of a newly
constructed home in Maryland, used $
175,000 in cash to buy a townhouse in
Maryland shortly before his arrest.
Evidence also found monthly credit card
payments of $8300 over 4 years and plans
to build a hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.
The verdict came at the end of a five-day
trial before U.S. District Judge Ann L. Aiken.
Kazeem is scheduled to be sentenced in
Medford on Nov. 8. Kazeem’s son, Michael
Kazeem, has pleaded guilty to an indictment
and awaits sentencing.
Investigators from the IRS, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services,
the FBI and Office of Inspector General were
involved in the case.

www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/nigerian-kazeem-guilty-7m-fraud-us-jailed-nov/

it's in their DNA, just like follow come

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Toto

Fraud (all forms both home and away) and skull mining have one thing in common.... AFONJAs

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#softwork

You are a thief only when you are caught

Who loves NCAN like this?? . For real,Nigerians should think of better way to better ourselves