US court sentences Nigerian Adedayo Fateru to seven years over $1.7m laundering racket

A US court has sentenced Nigerian citizen and permanent resident Adedayo Fateru to seven years and three months in prison over a $1.7 million money laundering scheme.

According to Peoples Gazette, the US Department of Justice said Fateru and three accomplices, Lisa Farrow, William Atwater and Victoria Stone, were sentenced on Wednesday for laundering proceeds from wire fraud schemes, including business email compromises and false COVID-19 relief applications.

Fateru will be transferred to ICE custody for removal proceedings after completing his sentence.