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$1M Wire Fraud Suspects Named: Okonkwo & Adjei
Two Georgia residents, Chisom Okonkwo, 27, and Prince Boateng Adjei, 30, both of Lawrenceville, have been charged with causing a Gilmer County business to send them three fraudulent wires totaling over $1 million as part of a business email compromise scheme.
According to the indictment, Okonkwo and Adjei created an email address which spoofed that of an employee at a Gilmer County business, causing a vendor to send more than $1 million to a bank account controlled by the defendants in Georgia. Before investigators uncovered the crime, Okonkwo and Adjei are alleged to have expended more than $600,000 of the stolen funds.
$1 million in wire fraud was allegedly sent to a bank account controlled by Okonkwo and Adjei in Georgia. The indictment alleges that the duo created a spoofed email address to deceive a Gilmer County business into sending the funds.
“Business email compromise fraud continues to be a problem in West Virginia and throughout the country,” said U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld. “The good news is that it can be prevented with the training of employees, the implementation of email authentication protocols, and verifying the sender of the email through another form of communication.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jarod Douglas is prosecuting the case on behalf of the government. The United States Secret Service investigated the case.
An indictment is merely an allegation, and each defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Okonkwo and Adjei are each charged with 18 counts of wire fraud.
Key Facts
- State: West Virginia
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: Official Source ↗
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