{"id":2330,"date":"2024-09-11T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2024-09-11T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:33:55","slug":"american-national-bags-74-years-in-jail-for-1-2m-visa-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/american-national-bags-74-years-in-jail-for-1-2m-visa-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"American national bags 74 years in jail for\u00a0 $1.2m visa scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2331\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/OIP-5-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/OIP-5-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/OIP-5.jpeg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By Publisher<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kindly share:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marco Ramirez, an American businessman, was on Tuesday sentenced to 74 years in jail over $1.6m fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lagos State Special Offence Court slammed Ramirez with the sentence, after it found him guilty of the charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was arraigned on a 12-count charge but later re-arraigned on a 16-count charge on June 24, 2022, before Mojisola Dada, the trial judge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ramirez was prosecuted alongside his companies, Eagle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ford Instalodge Group LP, USA NOW Energy Capital Group LP, and USA NOW LLC over a $1,235,000 EB-5 visa fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was also arraigned on another nine-count charge of $368,698.24 fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ramirez was accused of defrauding and collecting various sums of money from his victims as processing fees for their investments in his company, which would purportedly qualify them to be eligible for the issuance of a United States of America Green Card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her ruling, Justice Mojisola Dada found Ramirez guilty,\u00a0 saying the prosecution had successfully proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Consequently, she sentenced him to varying terms of imprisonment on the various offences he was charged with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Publisher Kindly share:\u00a0 Marco Ramirez, an American businessman, was on Tuesday sentenced to 74 years in jail over $1.6m&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[531,688],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-economic-and-financial-crimes-commission","tag-fraud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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