Nigerian Man Arrested in US Over Theft and Money Laundering

(Oludemilade. Photo Credit: X/DHS)

A Nigerian man named Rapheal Oludemilade Adebowale has been arrested in the United States by the immigration police.

The US Department of Homeland Security announced this on Tuesday.

Adebowale was arrested in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, during an operation looking for people living in America illegally.

He had previously been convicted of stealing money and also of money laund£ring, which means moving stolen or illegal money around to hide where it came from.

Two other foreign nationals were also arrested during the same operation.

One was a Pakistani man named Jawwad Ali Ahmed, and the other was a Brazilian man named Alexandre Esdras Pandolfi-Soares.

Ahmed had been convicted of what the department called improper acts with a child under 14 years old in Sacramento, California.

Pandolfi-Soares had been convicted of for¢ible s£xual @buse in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The US Department of Homeland Security said in a post on social media that they arrested more p£dophiles, s£xual pr£d@tors, dr*g tr@ffickers and other dangerous criminals.

They said President Trump has made it clear that people living in America illegally are not welcome.

The department did not say how much time Adebowale had to spend in prison for his theft and money laund£ring crimes or give details about his court case.

Separately, the US Department of Justice has charged three more Nigerians along with 13 other foreign nationals with illegal voting, lying about being American citizens, and other election crimes.

The three Nigerians are Gladys Adaeze Okafor, aged 56, Helen Sayen Adams, aged 67, and Joshua Nmelichukwu Akpom, aged 27.