$4.9m fraud: US court jails Nigerian for 46 months

A United States court has sentenced a 47-year-old Nigerian, Imafedia Adevokhai, to 46 months in prison over his involvement in a multi-year stolen identity tax refund fraud amounting to $4,945,886.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, Abe McGlothin Jr., obtained by PUNCH Metro on Sunday.

According to the statement, Adevokhai conspired with two other convicted U.S-based Nigerians,…