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June 5, 2025

FBI arrests Nigerian ‘tech queen’ Sapphire Egemasi over multimillion-dollar Internet fraud, money laundering

She is currently in custody with her co-conspirators awaiting trial in Lexington, Kentucky, where they each face up to 20 years’ imprisonment.

Sapphire Egemasi
February 26, 2024

Billionaire widow Ruth Gottesman donates $1 billion to foot students’ tuition at medical college

Mrs Gottesman instructed that the donation be used to foot the tuition bills of all medical students in the Bronx, one of the most impoverished boroughs in New York.

Ruth Gottesman
July 1, 2021

U.S. extradites, jails Ghanaian lady for multimillion-dollar scam

Ms Mensah was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering on April 2, 2021.

United States Department of Justice

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