A United States District Court has sentenced a Nigerian, Leslie Chinedu Mba, to 19 years’ imprisonment for his role in a $4 million fraud scheme and attempts to obtain residency through fraudulent marriages to elderly women. PUNCH Online gathered from a statement issued on Friday by the US Attorney for the District of Houston, Nicholas Ganjei, that the court also ordered that Mba be deported upon completion of his prison term. Ganjei said the 40-year-old, alongside other co-conspirators, carried out a series of business email compromise and romance scams between April 2018 and December 2023, targeting unsuspecting victims who believed they were transferring funds to legitimate businesses. Ganjei said, “From April 2018 to December 2023, Mba and others inside and outside of the United Sta...