LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday, November 20, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested notorious fraudster Oluyomi Omobolanle Bombata, also known as Bobo Chicago, for scamming companies and individuals of $2.8 million in Illinois. Authorities have also revoked the license of the African Shrine, owned by Wale Ogundana in Las Vegas, after the FBI traced…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman in bushes near the property line of the golf…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The man suspected of shooting at former US President Donald Trump has been named by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks. He was 20 years old and from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, they said in a statement. Trump was shot at during a rally in Pennsylvania, with Secret Service agents swarming the former…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C, has fixed a new date to advance a motion to release or withhold President Bola Tinubu’s records by its security agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In 2022, anti-corruption campaigner Aaron Greenspan teamed…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A self-proclaimed “Nigerian scammer” proudly took credit for the failed attempt to auction off Elvis Presley’s iconic Graceland mansion, which left his granddaughter Riley Keough “traumatized,” according to a report. The ownership of the sprawling Memphis property was thrust into doubt earlier this month after a mysterious company named Naussany Investments and…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on April 2 took into custody Ifediora Oli, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, for allegedly conniving with two persons to defraud the District of Columbia public transit system after securing a Covid-19 testing kit contract worth more than half a million dollars….
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has charged a United States citizen with money laundering after he acted as a middleman to funnel millions of dollars in kickbacks from Nigerian romance scams and business email compromises, the U.S. Department of Justice has said. Niselio Barros Garcia, a Florida man, admitted guilt to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2BD (NEWSRANGERS)-Oregon Tool Incorporated, a U.S.-based company that sells farming equipment and precision cutting tools, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to pay $1.7 million fine for shipping multibillion-naira worth of tools to two Nigerian fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, without carrying out due diligence, documents obtained by Peoples…
