FBI Arrests Nigerian Tech Queen, Sapphire Egemasi Over Multi-Million Greenback Fraud In US
FBI has arrested Nigerian Tech Queen, Sapphire Egemasi over multi-million greenback fraud in US.
PoliticalNews Nigeria experiences that Sapphire Egemasi, a tech fanatic, has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in reference to a large-scale fraud scheme that focused a number of US authorities businesses.
Egemasi, a programmer who operates a Devpost account, was arrested round April 10, 2025, in Bronx, New York, alongside different co-conspirators, together with Samuel Kwadwo Osei, who appeared to have led the syndicate.
Their arrest stems from a federal grand jury indictment filed in 2024, charging the suspects with a number of counts of web fraud and cash laundering for crimes stated to have occurred between September 2021 and February 2023.
Egemasi and her Ghanaian co-defendants allegedly conspired to defraud the town of Kentucky of tens of millions of {dollars}.
In line with investigators, her function concerned designing spoof web sites impersonating official US authorities domains to steal login credentials and facilitate the switch of stolen funds.
Earlier than her arrest, Egemasi was reportedly based mostly in Cambridge, United Kingdom, though authorities consider she beforehand lived in Ghana, the place she doubtless established ties together with her co-conspirators.
She allegedly served because the syndicate’s tech lead, orchestrating the creation of pretend websites and overseeing wire transfers to accounts underneath the gang’s management.
Textual content message information allegedly present that in August 2022, the syndicate rerouted $965,000 stolen from Kentucky right into a PNC {Bank account}.
In a separate transaction across the identical time, $330,000 was funnelled into an account with {Bank} of America.
To hide the origins of her wealth, Egemasi reportedly claimed to have held a number of roles, largely internships, at main multinational corporations, together with British Petroleum, H&M, and Zara.
Egemasi, who was popularly recognized on-line as ‘tech queen’, assumed a cultured digital persona, particularly on LinkedIn, the place she showcased her abilities and “flaunted an opulent way of life”.
Through her social media accounts, she posted pictures of herself on lavish holidays to locations like Greece and Portugal, which prosecutors now declare had been funded by way of illicit proceeds.