Nigerian man arraigned for allegedly defrauding Australian investor of AUD$8.4m, US$3.6m

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned 1 Usie Otukpa Osang earlier Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, implicit an alleged multi-million dollar fraud scheme.

According to the anti-graft agency, Osang was arraigned connected Monday, June 29, 2026, connected an eight-count complaint bordering connected impersonation and obtaining wealth nether mendacious pretences involving AUD$8,427,330.83 and US$3,639,462.00.

The EFCC alleged that the defendant, who reportedly operated nether the aliases “Oscar Tyler” and “Ford Thompson,” defrauded victims done a fake cryptocurrency concern level known arsenic Liquid Assets Group.

Part of the complaint read: “That you, Usie Otukpa Osang (alias Oscar Tyler and Ford Thompson) and others astatine large, sometime betwixt May, 2021 and May, 2022, successful Abuja, wrong the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, with the intent to defraud, conspired with others astatine ample to get the aggregate sum of AUD $8,427,330.83 (Eight Million, Four Hundred and Twenty-Seven Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty Australian Dollars, Eighty-Three cents) from Brian Jacques Creigh, an Austral...