FBI puts Nigerian Chidozie Collins Obasi on wanted list for allegedly duping New York State of $30m

A Nigerian man identified as Chidozie Collins Obasi, 29, has been put on the FBI wanted list for alleged fraud.

Obasi is being accused by the US agency of allegedly defrauding New York hospitals of $31 million by offering non-existent COVID-19 ventilators for sale.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) in a statement on Saturday, September 10, said the suspect allegedly perpetrated the scheme from Nigeria with the help of co-conspirators abroad between September 2018 and June 2020.

Obasi and his accomplices allegedly obtained more than $31,000,000 through a complicated fraud scheme, the majority coming from the State of New York.