United States, US, financial crimes investigators have
reportedly nabbed three Nigerians – Shalewa Olayinka, 53, Christy Tifase and
Maxwell Ezenwa for their alleged connection in a large-scale credit card scheme
that allegedly used two Southwest Houston businesses to steal hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
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Daily mail is reporting that Olayinka had applied for 116
credit cards which he subsequently obtained from eight different financial
institutions in 12 other people’s names.
He allegedly applies for the credit card using a victim’s
information and then steals the card out of his or her mailbox when the card
arrives.
According to investigators, the 53-year-old had a square
card reader attached to his cell phone under the business name “Sleek Auto
Sales” and would run the fraudulent credit cards in his southwest Houston
apartment. The money was then deposited into his bank account. The two other suspects, said to be his accomplices, run a
cartel which operates within the US and have allegedly stolen more than
$650,000. Olayinka reportedly conspired with the two local business
owners, Ezenwa, who owns Lace Warehouse and African Fashions on Bissonnet and
Tifase who owns Lagos Island Café on Highway 6 South, a west African food
restaurant.
The cartel is accused of also running the credit cards for payments
at their businesses.
Investigators also revealed that the trio will be facing a
charge of engaging in organized criminal activity, felony.
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