Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe, popularly known as Owelle of Abagana, is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud expert artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria. He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo, of $242 million: $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding interest, between 1995 and 1998. His accomplices were Emmanuel Ofolue, Nzeribe Okoli, and Obum Osakwe, along with the husband and wife duo, Christian Ikechukwu Anajemba and Amaka Anajemba, with Christian later being assassinated.
After Nick Leeson's trading losses at Barings Bank, and the looting of the Iraqi Central Bank by Qusay Hussein, the crime was the third largest in banking history. After a large-scale attack on a town in Nigeria in August 2016, Nwude was alleged to be a ringleader and was arrested on murder charges. He was later released.
Inasemekana kuwa Emmanuel Nwude, mmoja wa matapeli maarufu zaidi katika historia ya uhalifu wa kifedha nchini Nigeria ambaye kati ya miaka ya 1995 na 1998, aliwahi kumuuzia mtu uwanja wa ndege wa bandia, akijifanya kuwa mkurugenzi wa Benki Kuu ya Nigeria.
Kwa udanganyifu huu, Nwude alimdanganya...
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