Abidemi Rufai, a former special assistant to ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has admitted stealing the identities of 20,000 Americans to claim $2million in disaster relief including $350,000 in COVID benefits. Rufai, 45, pleaded guilty in US District Court in Tacoma to stealing Social Security numbers and other personal data from residents of Washington State to pocket around $600,000. At the time, Rufai was working as a special assistant to the Ogun State governor in Nigeria before his May 2021 arrest at New York’s Kennedy airport when he was…
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