Okpoh, alongside Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, and Nnamdi Orson Benson, had been declared wanted by the FBI sometime in 2019 for their alleged involvement in a Business Email Compromise scheme that defrauded over seventy businesses in the United States, of over six billion US dollars
EFCC in a statement by its Head of Media and Publicity in the South-South Zone, said the suspect allegedly provided over forty bank accounts to his conspirators, which were used to receive fraudulent wire transfers from their victims totalling over one billion US dollars.
According to the statement obtained by our Correspondent, the suspect was alleged to have on the 21st of August 2019, indicted in the United States District Court, District of Nebraska, on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
However, Okpoh, on Friday, September 18, 2020, turned himself in at the Lagos Zonal Office of the Commission in company of his parents, retired Colonel Garuba Okpoh and Justina Okpoh.
The statement said Okpoh, during interrogation, said he made the move to surrender himself to the Commission out of respect he had for his parents and his resolve to be morally upright.
