Onyema, the boss of the commercial airline, Air Peace, has been slammed with a 36 count charge of committing bank fraud by District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division.
Allen Onyema, the man who was responsible for the airlifting of 600 Nigerians from South Africa following the xenophobic attacks on africans, has been indicted for fraud in the United States of America.
Onyema, the boss of the commercial airline, Air Peace, has been slammed with a 36 count charge of committing bank fraud by District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division.
Court documents revealed a series of bank transfer made by Onyema to banks in the US over eight year period. “In total, from 2010 through 2018, wire deposits amounting to over $44.9 million was transferred from foreign accounts into Onyema’s Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and J.P. Morgan Chase accounts,” the document cited.
Onyema is said to have conspire with others to perpetrate the fraud. According to the document, Onyema, “knowingly and willfully combine, conspire, confederate, agree, and have a tacit understanding with each other and with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to commit bank fraud, an offense against the United States, that is to knowingly devise and execute and attempt to execute a scheme and artifice (i) to defraud financial institutions the deposits of which were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, that is, Wells Fargo Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, and (ii) to obtain and attempt to obtain moneys, funds, and assets owned by and under the custody and control of those financial institutions.”
In the wake of the saga, Onyema denied he never perpetrated any fraud against the United States. However, the Nigerian government through its Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, has constituted a panel of investigators to probe the fraud case.