Nigerian-born Adeyemi Odufuye, 31, has pleaded guilty to charges against a Torrington company that has defrauded more than $ 500,000, according to the US District Attorney's Office in Connecticut. . . Adeyemi Odufuye, 31, and others involved in this fraudulent activity sent dozens of emails to a Torrington company's controller at the end of 2015, urging them to transfer more than $ 500,000 from the company's accounts. . . Odufuye, "Micky", "Micky Bricks", "Yemi", "GMB", "Bawz" and "Jefe" "were extradited from the UK, where he was studying at the University of Sheffield Hallam, and arrested in December 2016. . . In the emails, (Odufuye) posed the true chief executive of the victim company and instructed the controller to send several transfers of more than one million dollars from the company's accounts to various presumed persons and entities. . . The company then sent five wire transfers totaling more than $ 500,000 to accounts in Virginia, Florida, Washington DC, and Hong Kong. . . To date, the FBI has identified 36 wire confirmations in email accounts used by (Odufuye) and others between September 2015 and May 2016, totaling more than $ 1.6 million. . . This does not include funds from Torrington. He pleaded guilty to charges of cable fraud, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, and aggravated identity theft. . . This latest charge requires a mandatory minimum sentence of two years, the US Attorney's Office said. Odufuye is scheduled to appear in the US District Court in New Haven to be sentenced on March 28.TELL A FRIEND... #AFRICA ... spill TEA ABOUT THE TOPIC ABOVE.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
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