Elvis Uadiale, an alleged fraudster has secured the All Progressive Congress ticket to represent the people of Esan South East local government area o
Elvis Uadiale, an alleged fraudster has secured the All Progressive Congress ticket to represent the people of Esan South East local government area of Edo State in the state house of assembly.
Despite a strong opposition mounted against him by some members of his constituency and top politicians in the state to prevent his alleged antecedent from becoming a stain on the state and by extension the party, Elvis against all odds, scaled through.
Obviously, Elvis understood the phrase, ‘money talks’ as no sooner had he declared his intentions, that he went to work on the leadership of the party in the state headed by David Imuse, the APC chairman. He reportedly began throwing money around like a drunken sailor and that did the magic. He was eventually cleared to contest the primary.
Elvis was indicted for an international fraud scheme in the United States in 2012. According to his charge sheet filed by the United States Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Elvis alongside others were charged with conspiracy to commit internet fraud and money laundering using conventional communication media such as mail, telephone, or the internet to swindle consumers seeking loans, employment opportunities, and financial awards, among others.
Acvording to PremiumTimes, they had set a plan in motion to defraud hundreds of unsuspecting persons in the US and other countries. Between 2008 and 2009, Elvis operated MoneyGram and Western Union outlets named Diale Investment in the Greater Brooklyn in the New York area and in that period, Western Union senders reported that seven money transfers totalling $9,985 paid at Diale Investments were induced by fraudulent mass marketing activity.
Western Union then suspended Uadiale’s authority to process Western Union money transfers during the September 2008 Anti Money Laundering compliance issue. Elvis not only recruited someone to process fraudulent money transfers on his and other unidentified mass marketers’ behalf, in 2008 alone, MoneyGram senders reported that over 100 illicit money transfers totalling over $327,000 paid to Elvis’s company were fraudulently induced.
Then in 2009, MoneyGram terminated his contract to process MoneyGram transfers.
With the primaries now done and dusted, it remains to get seen if Elvis will emerge victorious and take his pride of place among convicted Nigerian fraudsters holding political offices.
Should he eventually emerge winner in the general election, he will join the likes of a certain Northern governor, a South West governor and late Senator Buruji Kashamu, all of who were indicted for fraud and drug related charges in the United States but were openly welcomed in Nigeria and rewarded with political offices.
