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Nigerian Man Jailed In US For Scamming Woman $1.7m

A US court has sentenced a Nigerian, Olayinka Ilumsa Sunmola, to 27 years in prison for worldwide sentiment trick he executed from 2007 to 2014.

Lagos-conceived Olayinka, who was the instigator of an affection trick association situated in South Africa, was additionally requested to reimburse $1.7million.

Judge David Herndon of a US region Court in East St. Louis heard how he and others misled numerous American ladies of a great many dollars while parading themselves as American officers positioned abroad or engineers dealing with a vast government contract in South Africa.

They developed sentimental associations with many ladies utilizing pictures of men they discovered on the web, now and then pictures of dead servicemen from commemoration sites.

Prosecutors said Olayinka's exercises drove some to chapter 11 and no less than one to the edge of suicide.

The 33-year-old gave the ladies verse, cards, blossoms, soft toys and chocolates until he has effectively captured them.

When his objective his ensnared, Olayinka started to produce crises, each of which required progressively a lot of cash from his casualties.

Olayinka utilized their cash for rich gatherings, two Range Rovers, four properties in South Africa and a $363,000 home in Nigeria, prosecutors said.

A government fabulous jury sitting in East St. Louis prosecuted Olayinka in November 2013 on charges of mail misrepresentation, wire extortion, trick, and interstate blackmail.

Following two days of a jury trial, Olayinka confessed to eight lawful offenses, including mail misrepresentation, wire extortion, trick, and interstate blackmail.

In his decision Judge Herndon stated, "Intrigue, 'mail and wire misrepresentation,' and 'interstate coercion' scarcely solid like the sorts of wrongdoings that leave broken lives, destroyed ladies, cracked families, obliteration, longings to kick the bucket, mortification and disgrace so extraordinary.

"Be that as it may, then, his appeal swung to tormenting, ridiculing, coercion, unimaginable requests and dangers. Contemplations of heaven transformed into considerations of hellfire and, for a few, musings of suicide. The most wrecking wrongdoing one would ever envision without laying hands or even eyes on another individual."

At the point when Olayinka finishes his 27-year jail term, he will be ousted to Nigeria.