A Nigerian national has gotten himself into the law after he was arrested on charges of stealing a US university funds of around $1.4m. The suspect identified as Kolawole Erinle was arrested for allegedly defrauding the Kansas University of medicine and Biosciences of a whooping $1.4m.
An agent of the Federal Bureau of investigation, identified as Mr.Ayotunde Solademi, on Tuesday February 7, told an Ikeja court how the arrested victim Kolawole Erinle scammed the Kansas school of medicine and biosciences an amount of $1.4m by using a form of business email with a forged senders address.
Addressing the matter, Solademi in an examination which was led by the chief of the EFCC counsel Temitope Banjo told the court that, the kansas university of medicine and biosciences underwent a construction project with a company called the J.E Dun in Kansas City way back in 2019 and wired an amount of $1.4m to a bank account they believed it was for the construction company J.E Dun.
However on march 2019, the construction company contacted the Kansas university asking for the payment to begin the work and authorities of the university replied the payment have been made which was a bit confusing to believe since the J.E Dun construction company has received no such payment. Speaking in the matter, they revealed the following;
"On March 28, 2019, Dunn confirmed that they did not receive payment”
"It was later found out by both parties that somebody changed the wire transfer details for Dunn using a fake email domain jedunn.org whereas the real domain name for the construction company is jedunn.com”.
"After this, the case was reported to the FBI and an investigation carried out showed that the email account of Dunn's Chief Financial Officer was spoofed."
“He said the wire transfer of $1.41m made by KCUMB entered into a Bank of America account with an account number ending with 6843 on March 5 2019”.
He added, "On that same day, somebody accessed that account and wired $850,000 to a Diamond Bank account (now Access
Bank) ending with 4471”
"The next day, which was March 6, 2019, somebody still accessed the same Bank of America account and wired $560,000 to the same Diamond Bank account in Nigeria."
The victim have pleaded not guilty to charges leveled against him and the case have been adjourned to Friday the 10, February 2023 for continuation of trial.
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