An American businessman, Marco Antonio Ramirez, has been convicted and sentenced to 74 years imprisonment by a Lagos State Special Offences Court, in Ikeja, on Tuesday, for defrauding victims of $1.2m, through an EB-5 visa scam and an additional $368,698.24, in fraud. Justice Mojisola Dada, who handed down the sentence, found Ramirez guilty on two separate consolidated charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The court ruled that the prosecution had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. On the first charge, Ramirez was sentenced to…
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