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 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A court convicted a Nigerian woman of helping defraud a Brazilian bank of $242 million in the West African country's biggest international fraud case.
Amaka Anajemba was convicted Friday, sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and ordered to give up $25.5 million in cash and assets — including houses in Nigeria, the United States, Britain and Switzerland — to help repay the bank.
According to court papers, Anajemba helped her late husband in a fraud ring that tricked a top employee of the Brazilian bank into siphoning millions to overseas accounts on the promise of $13.4 million kickback from a bogus Nigerian airport contract.
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