A 40-year-old Glendale man has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for his role in online romance scams, authorities said.
Kingsley Sebastian Ibhadore was sentenced on May 5. He had pleaded to conspiring to commit structuring for his role in withdrawing more than $500,000 from bank accounts in amounts below federal reporting requirements to avoid detection by authorities, according to a release from the Arizona district of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Ibhadore served as a ‘money mule’ in a criminal scheme by transferring fraud proceeds, in relatively small amounts, between fictitious bank accounts to avoid federal reporting requirements and detection. Specifically, Ibhadore used 24 bank accounts under multiple aliases to conceal and distribute funds obtained through online romance scams that were initiated by other individuals,” the release stated…