Mike Oziegbe Amiegbe, 45, of Boston, has been sentenced to six months in prison for opening multiple bank accounts used to deposit money embezzled from online romance scams.
who opened multiple bank accounts that were used by others to deposit money embezzled from victims of online romance scams, including one woman who was cheated out of $720,000, was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison.
Mike Oziegbe Amiegbe, 45, was also sentenced to three months of home confinement, three years of probation and was ordered to pay nearly $830,000 in forfeiture and restitution to victims, according to federal prosecutors.Amiegbe from 2017 through 2020 used at least nine aliases and fake passports to open accounts at multiple banks in the Boston area, according to court documents. Those accounts were used by the scammers to deposit the victims' money.
Mike Oziegbe Amiegbe, 45, of Boston, has been sentenced to six months in prison for opening up bank accounts used by online romance scammers. Amiegbe then quickly accessed those accounts and either withdrew the fraud proceeds in cash from ATMs or with a cashier’s check, prosecutors said. The money was sent to others overseas. On some occasions he was seen on bank surveillance video conducting those transactions, according to court documents.
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