{"id":11383,"date":"2019-08-18T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2019-08-18T17:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:22:32","slug":"sentenced-to-13-months-in-american-prison-two-nigerian-yahoo-boys-in-trouble-for-stealing-the-sum-of-487000-cash-olugboyega-akinloye-fasanya-anthony-chidozie-ezike-altered-fake-checks-the-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/sentenced-to-13-months-in-american-prison-two-nigerian-yahoo-boys-in-trouble-for-stealing-the-sum-of-487000-cash-olugboyega-akinloye-fasanya-anthony-chidozie-ezike-altered-fake-checks-the-36\/","title":{"rendered":"SENTENCED TO 13 MONTHS IN AMERICAN PRISON: TWO NIGERIAN Yahoo Boys in Trouble for STEALING the sum of $487,000 Cash…OLUGBOYEGA AKINLOYE FASANYA, ANTHONY CHIDOZIE EZIKE altered fake checks * The 36-year-olds deposit fraudulent checks totaling $1.2 million in banks and withdrew $487,000 cash before the fraud was detected *Submitted counterfeit traveling international passports from Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa as form of identification to avoid detection * Fasanya ordered to pay $380,000 in restitution to the affected banks while Ezike has been ordered to pay back $230,000, await deportation after serving JAIL term * \u201cFasanya and Ezike agreed that they actually committed the crime. They admitted they altered the checks and deposited them into American banks in Rhode Island and Massachusetts\u201d-U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island Stephen Dambruch BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief, Naija Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SENTENCED TO 13 MONTHS IN AMERICAN PRISON:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TWO\nNIGERIAN Yahoo Boys in Trouble for STEALING the sum of $487,000\nCash…OLUGBOYEGA\nAKINLOYE FASANYA, ANTHONY CHIDOZIE EZIKE altered fake checks <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nThe 36-year-olds deposit fraudulent checks totaling $1.2 million in\nbanks and withdrew $487,000 cash before the fraud was detected<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Submitted\ncounterfeit traveling international passports from Nigeria, Ghana\nand South Africa as form of identification to avoid detection <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nFasanya ordered to pay $380,000 in restitution to the affected banks\nwhile Ezike has been ordered to pay back $230,000, await deportation\nafter serving JAIL term<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n\u201cFasanya and Ezike agreed that they actually committed the crime.\nThey admitted they altered the checks and deposited them into\nAmerican banks in Rhode Island and Massachusetts\u201d-U.S. Attorney for\nRhode Island Stephen Dambruch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY GEORGE\nELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief, Naija Standard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEY ARE\nNIGERIANS WHO LIKES TO LIVE ON THE FAST LANE. THEY CAME ON B1\/B2\nVISITOR’S VISA TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BUT THERE IS CRIME IN\nTHEIR DNA BLOOD. They prefer to continually live on the fast lane,\nrather than staying away from crime. OLUGBOYEGA\nAKINLOYE FASANYA and ANTHONY CHIDOZIE EZIKE are yahoo boys whose sole\npurpose of daily survival is a continuation of their lifestyle of\nill-gotten wealth to which they always cherish to display as\n‘big-boys’ in the society, even when they know their source of fund\nis filthy. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The duo planned,\norchestrated and attempted to steal a whooping sum of One Million\ndollars ($1million) from various banks in Rhode Island and\nMassachusetts, but their evil vices caught up with them. As such,\nthese two Nigerian nationals who attempted to defraud banks in Rhode\nIsland and Massachusetts of more than $1 million have been sentenced\nto 13 months in federal prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Attorney for\nRhode Island Stephen Dambruch says Olugboyega Akinloye Fasanya, of\nWoonsocket, and Anthony Chidozie Ezike, of Pawtucket, have admitted\nthey altered checks and deposited them into the banks using\ncounterfeit passports from Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa as\nidentification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors say\nthe two 36-year-olds deposited fraudulent checks totaling about $1.2\nmillion and withdrew about $487,000 before the fraud was detected.\nFasanya and Ezike face deportation proceedings after completing their\nincarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fasanya\nhas also been ordered to pay about $380,000 in restitution to the\naffected banks while Ezike has been ordered to pay back about\n$230,000. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SENTENCED TO 13 MONTHS IN AMERICAN PRISON: TWO NIGERIAN Yahoo Boys in Trouble for STEALING the sum of $487,000 Cash…OLUGBOYEGA AKINLOYE FASANYA, ANTHONY CHIDOZIE EZIKE altered fake checks * The 36-year-olds deposit fraudulent checks totaling $1.2 million in banks and withdrew $487,000 cash before the fraud was detected *Submitted counterfeit traveling international passports from Nigeria, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-11383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-nigeria-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}