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Nigerian-born Fintech Founders Convicted in US for Laundering $160M

by Justice Godfrey Okamgba
July 18, 2022
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Anslem Oshionebo and Opeyemi Odeyale, Founders of Ping Express US LLC, have been sentenced to 27 months in jail over a $160 million alleged proceed of fraud that was sent to Nigeria through the company.

Texas-based fintech firm sends customers’ remittances to Nigeria, Kenya, and other African nations.

Anslem Oshionebo, 45, and 43-year-old Opeyemi Odeyale were sentenced after being found guilty of failing to maintain effective anti-money laundering controls and unlicensed money-transmitting, TechEconomy gathered from Bloomberg reports.

According to US legal filings, the money was sent over a period of about three years.

In one three-year period highlighted by the DoJ, the firm failed to flag a single suspicious transaction to regulators despite processing a “significant amount” of them, though it filed a batch of reports later.

One customer used the firm to move funds they made from fake-romance sc@ms, with victims including a woman in Indiana who sent $15,000 to a supposed roughneck oil worker in the Gulf of Mexico, and another who sent $6,300 to a purported Irish sea captain.

Another customer moved more than $80,000 in a single month, far more than the company’s $4,500 limit, court filings show.

Ping Express faces five years of probation and a fine as high as $500,000 after pleading guilty to a similar charge, while another executive received a 42-month sentence, the Department of Justice said.

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