Nigerian Instagram influencer and indicted Internet fraudster Adesuwa Ogiozee has said she was targeted by American authorities because of her identity as a black woman from Nigeria.
“It’s because I’m a Nigerian that’s why it makes even more sense for them to even come for me,” Ms Ogiozee said in an Instagram live tirade shortly after Peoples Gazette reported that she had been charged in the United States for her role in a romance scam and falsified tax claims.
Ms Ogiozee said her case was from “six years ago” and should not have been reported by The Gazette. She also falsely claimed The Gazette did not reach her for comments, even though The Gazette called and sent messages to her, including via WhatsApp that she read by declined to comment well ahead of publication.
Specifically, Ms Ogiozee emphasised her trouble came from a customer she sold a car to in a transaction worth only $12,000 in 2016. However, the FBI said it took a protracted investigation for agents to uncover Ms Ogiozee as a mastermind of the fraud and said her role was “extensive.”
“Federal agents have accumulated evidence, however, that proves the defendant’s involvement in fraud and other criminal activity is much more extensive,” the FBI criminal complaint said.
Even though she was indicted by a federal grand jury, she claimed in her Instagram live to over 300,000 followers that American authorities at the FBI were incompetent like Nigerian…
