Des Moines, IA- A Dallas, Texas resident who is a Nigerian National will spend 87 months in federal prison on wire fraud charges involving Iowa businesses.
Radio Iowa reports that court documents showed 28-year-old Emmanuel Ogbeide created a fraudulent business email scheme with his father and his girlfriend in the Southern District of Iowa.
The information says the three knowingly falsified bank accounts and got employees at businesses to move money into them. It says Ogbeide actively participated in moving large sums of money between fraudulent accounts to avoid detection. His father and girlfriend were each sentenced to 121 months in prison in September.
The three were ordered to pay restitution of nearly $1.6 million to the businesses.
