Nigerian Wire Wire Fraudster Goes To Jail,Ordered To Pay $930 Million By The United States.

Fawaz Olanrewaju Animashaun,a Nigerian will be spending the next two years in prison in the US after he defrauded Eastern Texas and others out of nearly $1 billion.The 27-yr-old is one of the two people named in a federal indictment for charges of aggravated identity theft
and conspiracy to commit bank fraud and also aiding and abetting.He was arrested at an airport in New York last year in November.He is been ordered to pay $ 930,737.60 to three financial companies.Animashaun will be paying $ 135,989 to  a bank based in Eastern Texas,$ 46,800 to Northern Trust Company and$ 747,948.60 to UMB Financial Corporation.Fawaz and his accomplice,Idowu Temitope Omolade are said be involved in over 20 fraudulent wire transfer between April and August of 2012.

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