FRAUDSTER FLAUNTED STOLEN CASH IN ONLINE VIDEOS

BRAGGED ABOUT NEVER DOING DAY’S WORK

A FRAUDSTER and drug dealer posted online videos of himself kissing piles of stolen cash.

Dan Aiyegbusi, 23, pictured, of Eastern Boulevard, Leicester, bragged about never worked a day in his life.

He was caught by the Metropolitan Police and admitted money laundering – the proceeds of cyber having crime – and possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and cannabis. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

A CYBER fraudster and drug dealer has been jailed for five years after he posted videos of himself with stolen cash online.

Dan Aiyegbusi, 23, of Eastern Boulevard, Leicester, filmed himself kissing and throwing heaps of money around and posted it on social media.

He admitted to never working a day in his life and colluded with organised hackers in the UK and internationally to launder stolen money.

Following an investigation by the Met’s Cyber Crime Unit (CCU), Aiyegbusi was sentenced to imprisonment on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court.

In the footage, released by the Metropolitan Police, the 23-year-old can be seen kissing and talking to a pile of notes in between his arms, saying: “I thought you was leaving me, I thought I was never going to see you again.” Another seven-second clip shows him smiling while throwing a wad of cash around.

Detective Inspector Phil McInerney, from the Met CCU, said: “Aiyegbusi didn’t have a care in the world as he stole people’s hard-earned cash and then flaunted it all over social media to boost his ego and brag about it.

“Aiyegbusi admitted in court that he had never worked a day in his life, instead acquiring huge sums of money from innocent members of the public, through large-scale cyber-enabled fraud committed across the UK banking sector.

“I would like to thank our partners in the banking sector and the Cyber Defence Alliance for their support and assistance during this investigation.” Aiyegbusi had previously pleaded guilty to five separate counts of money laundering, totalling £41,150; possession with intent to supply class A drugs (crack cocaine) and class B drugs (cannabis). He was also sentenced for the crack cocaine and cannabis supply.

Aiyegbusi pleaded not guilty to three counts of money laundering totalling £2,167,410 and was found not guilty in relation to these counts following a trial at Southwark Crown Court in December.

The court heard that in April 2018 he was using a Facebook account – using the name Miyuwa Oluwafemi – to advertise compromised online bank accounts. User names and passwords to the accounts were often acquired through cyberdependent crime such as phishing.

The investigation revealed the Facebook account was opened in 2015 and contained requests for banks accounts or credit/debit cards for use in fraud.

A covert operation followed and by June 2019 the team had gathered substantial evidence against Aiyegbusi, pictured right and below.

On June 26, he was tracked to an address in Luton and was arrested.

Police also found a large number of black plastic tubes that contained cannabis.

After the sentencing, one of Aiyegbusi’s victims, who is 80, said: “I was so pleased to hear the good news, as it has caused me and my husband a lot of stress and worry.

“I would receive numerous telephone calls from someone purporting to be from a telephone company saying there is a fault. I’ve been too scared to answer the phone in case the same thing happens

again.”