Popular Instagram auto dealer, Adesuwa Ogiozee, more popularly known as Renee, has the Federal Bureau of Investigation hot on her heels for alleged fraud-related offences.
THEWILL had exclusively reported about a year ago that Adesuwa, who helps Nigerian celebrities with vehicle purchases, was allegedly indicted in a federal court in New Mexico on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. She was allegedly indicted alongside her co-conspirators, Kayode Adeniyi, Olutayo Sunday Ogunlaja and two others. A grand jury had indicted them for alleged wire fraud, including scamming a female victim resident in Albuquerque, New Mexico and fraudulently dispossessing her of the sum of $560,000.
FBI findings allegedly indicated that Adesuwa moved more than $3 million in suspicious transactions through her American bank accounts between August 2016 and September 2017.
She was arrested in September 2021 and on the 17th of the same month, she appeared in the Eastern District of Missouri and was released the same day on a $25,000 bond.
To keep prying eyes from getting details of the fraud charges, Adesuwa allegedly got the charging documents sealed in New Mexico and St. Louis. Her movement is alleged to be restricted as she is alleged to be under surveillance with electronic device monitoring systems. The latest update on the case is that one of her co conspirators, Adeniyi, has been sentenced to three and half years’ imprisonment by a US federal judge after he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and fraud in connection with computers before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Adesuwa’s trial date is expected to commence on February 6, 2023. However, she has denied ever participating in fraud and claims that she is being targeted because she is Nigerian.
She added that she got into trouble after selling a car for $12,000 to a customer in 2016. She also claimed that she had been cleared of any charges of fraud. According to her, she cannot be said to be fraudulent, having sold over 2,000 cars with only one customer having issues with her.
Adesuwa, who thinks herself as a hardworking person, is one of the most sought-after luxury car dealers based in the United States, provides services to many Nigerians back home, including celebrities via her various business concerns, such as Adesuwa Motors LLC, which she set up in 2014; Adesuwa Auto LLC, incorporated in 2016 and Renzee Logistics, established in 2017. She is said to be trustworthy among her returning clients who also recommend her services to new clients.
She recently purchased a black G-Wagon for Chioma Rowland on the orders of David Adeleke aka Davido.
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