
Ganiu Ninalowo the supposed brother of Nollywood actor, Bolanle NINALOWO has been arrested by FBI agents in Chicago for laundering well over $1.5 MILLION.
According to FBI, the money derived by the culprit was gotten by defrauding a Community college in chicago and an energy company who were decieved into sending an estimated amount of $5million into fraudulent accounts controlled by ninalowo and His partner, 27-yr old Brittney stokes.
The two were charged as part of a larger investigation, which included the arrests of over 280 individuals, including 167 in Nigeria, 18 in Turkey and 15 in Ghana. The Department of Justice says arrests were also made in France, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom.
It is believed although not verifiable by internet data that the Ninalowos are from an affluent family who spent most of their childhood and young adult lifeĀ in the United States