A United States-based Nigerian, Oluwole Adegboruwa, and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, have been sentenced to 40 years combined jail term for coordinating the sales and distribution of a banned drug through the dark web across several states in the US.

PUNCH Metro gathered from a statement obtained on the website of the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Utah on Thursday that the US District Court also ordered Adegboruwa to forfeit the sum of $20m.

According to the statement, Adegboruwa led a syndicate of drug peddlers whom he instructed on how drugs obtained by customers through a dark web marketplace he controlled would be packaged and distributed.

Stressing on the arrest of the convict alongside Isong, it noted that the convict sold and distributed 300,000 oxycodone pills between October 2016 and May 2019 and made a sum of $9m from the illegal drug trade.

While Isong was jailed for 10 years in October, Adegboruwa was jailed for 30 years in November 2024.

The statement read, “Oluwole Adegboruwa, 54, of Las Vegas, Nevada, the main defendant and mastermind in a multi-million dollar dark web drug trafficking operation was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment. He was also ordered supervised release for life and the forfeiture of over $20m, which is among the largest forfeitures holding a defendant financially accountable for his crimes in the history of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah.

“The sentence, imposed by the US District Court Judge Jill N. Parish, comes after a jury found Adegboruwa and his co-defendant Enrique Isong, 49, of Los Angeles, California, guilty in May 2024 of multiple federal crimes, including conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and money laundering. On October 23, 2024, Isong was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment and three years of supervised release.

“According to court documents, evidence presented at trial, and statements made at Adegboruwa’s sentencing hearing, from October 2016 through May 2019, Adegboruwa sold more than 300,000 oxycodone pills on dark web marketplaces to customers throughout the United States. The jury found that Adegboruwa organised and supervised a continuing criminal enterprise that earned approximately $9,112,471 in drug proceeds.”

Stressing the trial process, the statement noted that the convict confessed that he controlled the sales of illicit drugs and accepted payments through cryptocurrency before converting them to local currency.

It continued, “The jury found that Adegboruwa was unquestionably in charge of the illicit narcotics operation. Each member of his enterprise served in different capacities. Some were tasked with locating and procuring pharmacy-grade pills that were then re-sold through various dark web marketplaces. Others were involved in packaging the pills and/or shipping them to customers.

“At trial, Adegboruwa admitted that he controlled sales on the dark web markets and the monetary accounts, including the cryptocurrency accounts through which the enterprise received the bulk of its profits. Adegboruwa also admitted he was the one who decided to start his online dark web drug sales operation.”

Reacting to the judgement, the DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge, Jonathan Pullen, noted that Adegboruwa concealed profits from his criminal proceeds in cryptocurrency transactions. He noted that the DEA would ensure that drug traffickers do not have a hiding place.

“Adegboruwa’s criminal drug enterprise was complex, sophisticated, and generated millions of dollars in profits concealed in cryptocurrency transactions. This sentencing is a stark reminder that the DEA is relentless in the pursuit of justice and that drug traffickers cannot hide their illicit activities even in the secretive expanses of the dark web,” Pullen said.

Ofemannnu:
Good for him.
You cannot escape being a druggie in USA.
His life is already done totally after adding 40 years to his current age.

Racoon:
Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.

Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.

His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.

The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993

It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.

Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.

He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.

“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/?.
 
U.S. court judgement indicts Tinubu for drug trafficking

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/amp/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indicts-tinubu-for-drug-trafficking/

US Court Releases Documents Linking Tinubu to Largescale Drug Peddling


https://fij.ng/article/us-court-releases-documents-linking-tinubu-to-largescale-drug-peddling/

nolzautoz:
Another thread to propagate ethnic war

anonimi:


How did T-Pain escape then

Dittodat:
I know this guy and his case.

anonimi:


Like impotent men bragging and competing over who has the longest but useless tool

anonimi:


How did T-Pain escape then

anonimi:


How did T-Pain escape then

WaleBuraimoh:


https://punchng.com/us-based-nigerian-accomplice-jailed-40-years-for-drug/

Ofemannnu:

That is because he had never been a druggie like most Igbos are
He will never be free if he was.

Dittodat:


Mumu, pls show us where Tinubu was ever charged or arrested for any drug crime.

For example, I actually know this guy that was just sentenced. Does that mean that I'm into what he's into?
I know at least 3 guys selling drugs back in the 80s while in the university in the US. One was a igbo guy who notorious drug dealer but very nice guy.
This guy will always dash me 100 box like it's nothing back then.
The guy had a night club in Detroit back then. He eventually got busted and was sentenced to a long prison time.

If Tinubu had anything to do with drug, the least that would have happened to him , would have been arrest and charges.
Tinubu has never been charged

Ofemannnu:
Good for him.
You cannot escape being a druggie in USA.
His life is already done totally after adding 40 years to his current age.

xpressionx:
Home and away Sadwest are winning.
At home we are using anything and anybody usable for rituals and we accuse the ibos.

Abroad we are doing fraud and drugs and also accusing the ibos.

We are genuises mehn.


Make I find one Ibadan geh wey do nyansh for Ikorodu take hol body this night.

shortgun:
What's really happening with our brothers from the west? There seems to be an astronomical increase in crimes perpetuated by them all over the world since Tinubu assumed office.

anonimi:


How did T-Pain escape then

Ofemannnu:
Good for him.
You cannot escape being a druggie in USA.
His life is already done totally after adding 40 years to his current age.