Overview

• Adetomiwa Seun Akindele, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
• He was ordered to pay $1,692,945 in restitution along with an equal forfeiture judgment and will be deported to Nigeria after his sentence.
• The scheme in 2018 targeted a widowed Colorado woman after Akindele fabricated a wealthy Italian American persona on a dating site.
• At his direction the victim opened a crypto exchange account, and he moved the funds across multiple platforms before converting them back to dollars and depositing them into his bank accounts.
• He executed three fraudulent promissory notes to reassure the victim; the FBI Denver Field Office investigated, and Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney handed down the sentence.