Texas man fraudulently moves $12m electronics from America to Nigeria

Oluseun Martins Omole, a resident of Texas, pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy that helped move over $12 million in consumer electronics to Nigeria on Wednesday.

Omole pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker in a court in the Southern District of New York.

Court documents stated that Omole collaborated with entities in Nigeria to fraudulently obtain consumer electronics worth several millions of dollars from thousands of victims in the United States. Omole and his co-conspirators moved all the fraudulently obtained assets to Nigeria between 2018 and 2023.

“Over the course of approximately five years, Oluseun Martins Omole received more than $12 million worth of fraudulently obtained consumer electronics and other items. Thousands of victims believed that they were sending these electronics and items to romantic lovers, legitimate buyers, and reputable employers. Instead, they went straight to Omole, who repackaged those electronics and goods and shipped them in bulk to co-conspirators located overseas in exchange for the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of US dollars,” US Attorney Damian Williams explained.

Omole is a 57-year-old man with some ties with Nigerians living in Nigeria