Defendant part of operation targeting business email
compromise schemes
BOSTON - A Nigerian national was charged in federal court in
Boston in connection with unlawfully possessing the identifications of two
victims.
Richard Emem Jackson, aka Auwire, 23, of Lagos, Nigeria, was
charged in an indictment filed on May 17, and unsealed yesterday, with two
counts of unlawful possession of a means of identification. Jackson has not yet
been arrested and remains at-large.
According to the indictment, on two occasions in 2017,
Jackson is alleged to have possessed the identifications of two victims with
the intent to commit wire fraud conspiracy as part of a larger fraud scheme.
Jackson faces a sentence of no greater than five years in
prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. Sentences
are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing
Guidelines and other statutory factors.
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and Harold H. Shaw,
Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field
Office, made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Harman Burkart,
Chief of Lelling’s Cybercrimes Unit, is prosecuting the case.
The details contained in the indictment are allegations. The
defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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