Ghanaians among dozens sentenced for their roles in Atlanta-based $30m fraud and money laundering operation

Multiple dozen people have been condemned for their contribution in an enormous scope misrepresentation and tax evasion activity that designated people, companies, and monetary organizations all through the US.

The respondents utilized business email compromise plans, sentiment extortion tricks, and retirement account tricks, among different cheats, to take more than $30 million from various casualties.

"The Branch of Equity has eagerly worked for over four years to get equity for many casualties affected by this audacious criminal association," said U.S. Lawyer Ryan K. Buchanan. "The respondents' sentences ought to act as an obvious advance notice to others that extortion and tax evasion violations are main concerns for this office and our government, state, and nearby policing."

"A few individuals from this connivance deceitfully got assets from ERISA-covered worker benefit plans. The assets, which started from accidental people's retirement accounts, were saved into individual and business financial balances that were made in assistance of this illegal tax avoidance scheme. The eagerness of the plotters made laborers and forthcoming retired people lose critical segments of their well deserved retirement reserves. We will keep on working with our policing and the U.S. Branch of Work's Representative Advantages Security Organization to safeguard the uprightness of representative advantage plans," said Mathew Broadhurst, Specialist in-Control, Southeast Locale, U.S. Division of Work, Office of Investigator General.

These misrepresentation tricks, albeit not brutal, are not harmless and can be annihilating to organizations and people who succumb to them," said Keri Genuinely, Specialist Accountable for FBI Atlanta. "The condemning of this multitude of people shows the FBI's devotion to working with our accomplices to consider anybody responsible who might take from dedicated and legit people, as opposed to invest the actual effort."

"These tricksters swindled people and organizations with the sole motivation behind improving themselves," said Acting Specialist in Control Travis Pickard, who administers Country Security Examinations (HSI) activities in Georgia and Alabama. "HSI and its policing will keep on working eagerly to safeguard the trustworthiness of the country's monetary foundation and guarantee that monetary violations don't be tolerated."

"This condemning outlines the Mystery Administration's devotion to safeguarding our country's monetary frameworks," said Steven R. Baisel, Specialist Responsible for the U.S. Secret Assistance's Atlanta Field Office. "We are grateful for our policing's responsibility and backing as we cooperated to deal with this case."

As indicated by U.S. Lawyer Buchanan, the charges, and other data introduced in court: The litigants took part in various extortion and tax evasion connivances that took a great many dollars from casualties situated all through the US and abroad. The litigants were charged across a few related forthcoming cases.

U.S. Locale Judge William M. Beam, II, condemned the accompanying people for their particular jobs in this criminal plan:

Joshua Roberts, otherwise called "Onyx," 32, of Houston, Texas, was condemned to eight years and one month in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $9,675,739.73 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on August 10, 2022, in the wake of confessing to trick to commit illegal tax avoidance on Walk 29, 2022.

Darius Sowah Okang, otherwise called "Michael J. Casey," "Richard Resser," "Thomas Vaden," "Michael Lawson," "Matthew Reddington," and "Michael Little," 32, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was condemned to seven years and 10 months in care, to be trailed by three years of managed discharge, and requested to pay $6,204,119 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on Walk 17, 2022, subsequent to conceding to trick to commit tax evasion and bothered data fraud on September 2, 2021.

George Kodjo Edem Adatsi, 39, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to five years and 10 months in authority, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $3,373,797.43 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on July 21, 2021, subsequent to confessing to intrigue to commit illegal tax avoidance on April 7, 2021.

Benjamin Ibukunoluwa Oye, 29, of Sandy Springs, Georgia, was condemned to five years in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $1,163,127.01 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on Walk 21, 2023, in the wake of conceding to trick to commit bank misrepresentation, disturbed fraud, connivance to commit tax evasion, and illegal tax avoidance on Walk 4, 2020.

Ruler Sheriff Okai, 29, of Mableton, Georgia, was condemned to four years and nine months in authority, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $4,950,586.54 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on January 12, 2021, subsequent to conceding to intrigue to commit tax evasion on October 6, 2020.

Hamza Abdallah, otherwise called "Reggie Lewis," 33, of McDonough, Georgia, was condemned to four years and nine months in care, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $5,051,473.87 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on February 24, 2021, in the wake of confessing to scheme to commit tax evasion on November 18, 2020.

Dominique Raquel Brilliant, otherwise called "Want Tamakloe," "Mellissa Moore," "Nicole Nolay," "Raquel Roberts," "Maria Henderson," and "Raquel Brilliant," 32, of Houston, Texas, was condemned to four years and a half year in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $7,830,607.05 in compensation to casualties. She was condemned on Walk 28, 2022, subsequent to conceding to connivance to commit tax evasion on September 30, 2021.

Kelvin Sovereign Boateng, 27, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to three years and 10 months in care, to be trailed by three years of directed discharge, and requested to pay $870,333 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on June 17, 2021, in the wake of confessing to scheme to commit tax evasion on Walk 2, 2021.

Jonathan Kojo Agbemafle, otherwise called "Thin," 29, of Kansas City, Missouri, was condemned to three years and 10 months in authority, to be trailed by three years of managed discharge, and requested to pay $2,637,625.01 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on August 8, 2022, in the wake of conceding to trick to commit illegal tax avoidance on April 4, 2022.

Favoring Oluwatimilehin Ojo, otherwise called "Timmy," 37, of Nigeria, was condemned to three years and 10 months in care, to be trailed by three years of directed discharge, and requested to pay $1,711,304 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on October 26, 2022, subsequent to conceding to intrigue to commit tax evasion on July 19, 2022.

Want Elorm Tamakloe, otherwise called "Rotund," 28, of Smyrna, Georgia, was condemned to three years and 10 months in care, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $1,215,357.81 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on April 18, 2023, subsequent to confessing to connivance to commit tax evasion on October 13, 2022.

Stephen Abbu Jenkins, otherwise called "Face," "Steven Abbu Jenkins," "Steven Jenkins," and "Steve Jenkins," 56, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to three years and seven months in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $726,290 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on February 22, 2023, subsequent to conceding to connivance to commit tax evasion on August 8, 2022.

Obinna Nwosu, 29, of Douglasville, Georgia, was condemned to three years and one month in authority, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $1,045,065.75 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on December 16, 2020, in the wake of confessing to scheme to commit tax evasion on September 17, 2020.

Ojebe Obewu Ojebe, 30, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to three years and one month in care, to be trailed by three years of directed discharge, and requested to pay $893,879.55 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on September 27, 2022, subsequent to confessing to scheme to commit tax evasion on June 2, 2022.

Francesco Benjamin, otherwise called "B-More," 33, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to three years and one month in authority, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $987,070 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on Walk 1, 2023, in the wake of confessing to scheme to commit tax evasion on October 19, 2022.

Chukwukadibia Ikechukwu Nnadozie, otherwise called "Chuka" and "Michael McCord," 30, of Fayetteville, Georgia, was condemned to three years and one month in authority, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $231,507.19 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on May 9, 2023, subsequent to confessing to intrigue to commit tax evasion on November 28, 2022.

Abubakar Sadik Ibrahim, 29, of Mableton, Georgia, was condemned to three years in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of managed discharge, and requested to pay $1,193,750.27 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on February 1, 2022, subsequent to confessing to scheme to commit tax evasion on September 27, 2021.

John Ifeoluwa Onimole, 31, of Powder Springs, Georgia, was condemned to three years in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $1,117,966.06 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on April 25, 2023, subsequent to conceding to tax evasion on December 7, 2022.

Chadrick Jamal Rhodes, 31, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to two years and 11 months in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $120,000 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on January 31, 2022, subsequent to conceding to connivance to commit bank misrepresentation and irritated wholesale fraud on October 12, 2021.

Chadwick Osbourne Stewart, 43, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to two years and eight months in authority, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $60,000 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on January 26, 2022, in the wake of confessing to scheme to commit bank misrepresentation and exasperated fraud on October 22, 2021.

Macario Lee Nelson, a/k/a "Macintosh," 27, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to two years and eight months in care, to be trailed by three years of directed discharge, and requested to pay $120,000 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on February 17, 2022, in the wake of confessing to scheme to commit bank misrepresentation and disturbed wholesale fraud on September 29, 2021.

Afeez Olaide Adeniran, a/k/a "Ola," 34, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to two years and a half year in care, to be trailed by three years of directed discharge, and requested to pay $352,830.25 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on October 6, 2022, in the wake of confessing to connivance to commit illegal tax avoidance on August 18, 2022.

Kahlia Andrea Siddiqui, 31, of Chamblee, Georgia, was condemned to two years and a half year in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $325,811 in compensation to casualties. She was condemned on February 22, 2023, subsequent to conceding to connivance to commit tax evasion on August 9, 2022.

Solomon Agyapong, otherwise called "Gumpe," 34, of Marietta, Georgia, was condemned to two years and a half year in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of managed discharge, and requested to pay $496,123.92 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on April 18, 2023, subsequent to conceding to connivance to commit tax evasion on October 11, 2022.

Christopher Akinwande Awonuga, 31, of Fayetteville, Georgia, was condemned to two years and 90 days in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of managed discharge, and requested to pay $113,276.27 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on January 8, 2020, subsequent to conceding to intrigue to commit bank misrepresentation on August 22, 2019.

Emanuela Joe Joseph, 37, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, was condemned to two years and 90 days in care, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $442,557.08 in compensation to casualties. She was condemned on February 21, 2023, in the wake of confessing to connivance to commit tax evasion on October 26, 2022.

Seth Appiah Kubi, 63, of Dacula, Georgia, was condemned to two years in authority, to be trailed by one year of administered discharge. He was condemned on July 7, 2020, subsequent to confessing to irritated data fraud on Walk 4, 2020.

Oluwafunmilade Onamuti, otherwise called "Mathew Kelvin," 29, of Duluth, Georgia, was condemned to one year and 10 months in care, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $167,195 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on July 21, 2021, in the wake of confessing to connivance to commit illegal tax avoidance on April 7, 2021.

Paul Chinonso Anyanwu, 31, of Hampton, Georgia, was condemned to one year and a half year in guardianship, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $57,000 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on December 19, 2019, subsequent to conceding to scheme to commit tax evasion on September 18, 2019.

Casey Broderick Williams, 29, of Covington, Georgia, was condemned to one year and one day in authority, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $60,000 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on June 2, 2022, subsequent to conceding to trick to commit bank misrepresentation and irritated fraud on July 30, 2019.

Alexus Ciera Johnson, 29, of Mableton, Georgia, was condemned to one year and one day in authority, to be trailed by three years of administered discharge, and requested to pay $106,879 in compensation to casualties. She was condemned on May 22, 2023, in the wake of confessing to scheme to commit illegal tax avoidance on October 11, 2022.

Egale Veonzell Woods, Jr., 44, of East Point, Georgia, was condemned to one year in authority, to be trailed by three years of regulated discharge, and requested to pay $165,007.19 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on April 21, 2021, subsequent to confessing to trick to commit tax evasion on Walk 4, 2020.

Gregory Thomas Hudson, 42, of Powder Springs, Georgia, was condemned to 10 months in authority, to be trailed by 10 years of managed discharge, and requested to pay $125,291.45 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on June 27, 2022, subsequent to conceding to connivance to commit bank misrepresentation on Walk 14, 2022.

Uchechi Chidimma Odus, otherwise called "Uche," 26, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to 10 months in authority, to be trailed by three years of managed discharge, and requested to pay $83,345.47 in compensation to casualties. She was condemned on May 17, 2023, in the wake of conceding to connivance to commit tax evasion on December 21, 2022.

Matthan Bolaji Ibidapo, otherwise called "B.J.," 30, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was condemned to eight months in care, to be trailed by three years of directed discharge with a piece to be served in home control and requested to pay $82,490.50 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on February 21, 2023, subsequent to confessing to trick to commit tax evasion on November 1, 2022.

Tyler Keon Roussell, 28, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to a half year in care, to be trailed by six years of regulated discharge with a part served in home constrainment, and requested to pay $368,400.49 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on February 21, 2022, in the wake of confessing to trick to commit bank extortion on May 16, 2019.

Monique Wheeler, 32, of Atlanta, Georgia, was condemned to 90 days in care, to be trailed by three years of managed discharge with a part to be served in home restriction, and requested to pay $71,010 in compensation to casualties. She was condemned on December 2, 2022, in the wake of confessing to tax evasion on July 13, 2022.

Chineda Obilom Nwakudu, 28, of McDonough, Georgia, was condemned to three years of probation with a part to be served in home restriction and requested to pay $123,645.85 in compensation to casualties. He was condemned on February 22, 2023, in the wake of conceding to trick to commit illegal tax avoidance on August 23, 2019.

Ahamefule Aso Odus, 30, of Atlanta, Georgia, was indicted by a jury on January 30, 2023, of scheme to commit tax evasion and different meaningful tax evasion offenses. His condemning is forthcoming.

Motswana Mulongo, otherwise called "David Mulongo" and "Henry Tipton," 38, of Decatur, Georgia, was indicted for intrigue to commit tax evasion on Walk 10, 2023. His condemning is booked for June 22, 2023.

Oumar Bouyo Mbodj of Kennesaw, Georgia, is perished, and charges documented against him were excused.

This examination was led under the sponsorship of the Coordinated Wrongdoing Medication Requirement Team (OCDETF) program — the cornerstone drug, tax evasion, and transnational coordinated wrongdoing authorization program of the Division of Equity.

This case was explored by the Branch of Work, Office of Overseer General, Government Agency of Examination, U.S. Secret Assistance, and U.S. Migration and Customs Implementation's Country Security Examinations. The examining organizations got impressive help from the Division of Work, Representative Advantages Security Organization, and various government, state, and nearby policing.

Colleague U.S. Lawyers Kelly K. Connors and Russell Phillips indicted the case.