New Feeding Our Future suspect charged with laundering millions of dollars overseas

MINNEAPOLIS — In a sprawling indictment that alludes to marriage and immigration fraud and accuses a man of funnelling millions of taxpayer dollars out of the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged the 74th defendant in the Feeding our Future pandemic meal fraud case.

Kenya resident Ahmednaji Maalim Aftin Sheikh, 28, is charged with conspiracy to commit international money laundering.

Sheikh is the brother of Abdiaziz Farah, who was recently sentenced to 28 years in prison as one of the masterminds and one of the first people to participate in the fraud scheme. Abdiaziz, along with his brothers Said and Abdulkarim, was also convicted of the attempted bribery of a juror…

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