Crime
Favour Ashe, Nigeria’s bronze medalist at CWG 2022, arrested for fraud in US
Favour Ashe, the Nigerian sprinter, has been arrested for alleged credit card fraud and property theft in Auburn, Alabama, US.
According to a statement published by the Auburn Police, Ashe was arrested on February 6 after the department received a report from a victim that multiple items were stolen from a purse near the 100 block of West Magnolia Avenue in the city.
A credit card was among the items stolen, and the victim discovered several fraudulent charges were made using the stolen card.
The department said Ashe turned himself in after he “was developed as a suspect” and “further investigation arrest warrants were obtained”.
Auburn Police added that the 21-year-old athlete was charged with “four counts of fraudulent use of a debit/credit card and two counts of theft of property third degree”.
Ashe was transported to the Lee County Jail and held on a $9,000 bond.
However, the department added that the suspect remains innocent until proven guilty by the court of law.
Ashe was among the quartet that won a bronze medal for Nigeria in the men’s 4×400 meters at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. He was a national 100-meter champion in 2022.
The sprinter moved to the University of Tennessee in 2022 before transferring to Auburn University, Alabama, at the end of the season.
He becomes the latest Nigerian abecameto be merch in fraud scandals in thinvolved
In 2022, two Nigerian athletes, Emmanuel Ineh and Toluwani Adebakin, were convicted by the US attorney’s office of the southern district of Mississippi for their part in a “complex fraud scheme”.
The two pleaded guilty to charges of “sending thousands of illicitly obtained proceeds to fraudsters in Nigeria as part of a larger mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.”
The scheme is said to have involved students of “multiple higher learning institutions in the United States”.
Crime
NDLEA arrests returning businessman for smuggling cocaine
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a businessman identified as an ‘I Just Got Back’ returnee for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, shared videos of the seized contraband on X.com on Sunday.
The suspect, who had just returned from a foreign trip, initially raised suspicion due to his nervous demeanour.
NDLEA officials subjected him to a routine screening, during which wraps of cocaine began to fall from his body.
The statement said: “Narco-trend update: The moment #ndlea_nigeria officers intercepted an ‘I Just Got Back’ businessman, screened him, and wraps of cocaine began to ‘rain’ from his body. Who will tell them that NDLEA will always get them no matter the mode of concealment?”
Click the link below to watch the video:
Crime
Court jails ex-IMF chief Rodrigo Rato for tax fraud, corruption
A Madrid court on Friday sentenced former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato to more than four years in prison for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption.
Judges found Rato who was also a former economy minister in Spain, guilty of “three offences against the treasury, one offence of money laundering and one offence of corruption between individuals,” the court announced in a statement.
Crime
Paul Pogba’s brother sentenced to prison over extortion
A Paris court on Thursday sentenced the brother of France midfielder, Paul Pogba, to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting him in a high-profile extortion case.
Mathias Pogba will be able to serve his one-year sentence with an electronic bracelet rather than behind bars.
The court also fined Pogba’s brother 20,000 euros for participating in the attempted extortion of 13 million euros ($13.5 million) from Pogba in 2022, and for putting pressure on the player, his family and his business contacts to obtain the payment.
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