A Nigerian man, Adepoju Salako, has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for committing wire fraud through a 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend fraud scheme in the United States.
Salako, a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania devised a scheme to defraud the Alaska Department of Revenue PFD programme.
The 33-year-old was sentenced on Tuesday following the court documents revealing his fraudulent activities between January and February 2022.
This was disclosed in a press statement by the Department of Justice website on Friday.
“Salako obtained the personal identifying information for legitimate Alaskan residents and submitted seven separate applications to the Alaska DOR to obtain their PFD funds. Related News Romance scam: Extradited Nigerian risks 40 years in US jail UNIBEN killing: Edo vows to treat internet fraud like cultism, kidnapping US moves to revoke citizenship of Nigerian convicted in $11.6m fraud case
