US court jails Anambra LG chairman 5 years over $3.5m romance scam

A United States federal court has sentenced a Nigerian politician, Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, to five years imprisonment for masterminding a long-running online romance fraud scheme that defrauded victims of more than $3.5 million.

Nwadialo, 42, who serves as Chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra State, was sentenced by US District Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright in Tacoma,…