Foutanga Babani Sissoko scammed the Dubai Islamic Bank of $242 million. He has not been apprehended because he lives in a heavily guarded mansion, and his country, Mali doesn’t have any extradition deal. He became a Lawmaker after the scam.
Foutanga Babani Sissoko duped the Dubai Islamic Bank by tricking the Deputy Director into believing that he could double their money. He turned down an invitation to have dinner with then US President Bill Clinton because he was in jail for illegally purchasing a combat plane.
Foutanga Babbani Sissoko set the former bail record in Florida State, USA ($20 million).
Former Nigerian Bank Director, Emmanuel Nwude crippled a Brazilian bank, Banco Noroeste after selling a fake airport to them for $242 million. He was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in 2005, but only spent one year in prison, and was released in 2006.
Emmanuel Nwude reclaimed $167 million worth of the money he made from the scam, through the court by claiming he made the money before the fraud. He attempted kidnapping a prosecuting witness and tried to bribe former EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu with $75,000 out of $242 million.
Nwude was declared wanted for the 2016 Abagana attack by 200 men over land, which led to the deaths of 4 police officers. He was held in Awka Prison and tried and remanded for another crime, forgery in May 2018. He was given a chieftaincy title, Owelle Abagana after the scam.
Ghana’s John Ackay Blay-Miezah pulled off the Biggest Scam in Philadelphia, USA’s history, scamming over 300 Americans of over $200 million. He convinced Ghana’s then Head of State, Acheampong to make him a Diplomat, so he could escape arrest in USA, and live good in England.
Blay-Miezah tricked people into believing he had access to $27 billion, he claimed was stashed and entrusted to him by Ghana’s first Prime Minister and President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. He was facing the death penalty for Economic Crimes in Ghana, but talked his way out of it.
Blay-Miezah claimed he needed financial help to unlock the bond the money was kept in.
Two Nigerian fraudsters, Emeka Okoronkwo and Michael Owolabi Alonge sold 150 plots in the Lagos Lagoon to a US-based businessman for $2.3 million.
Sergei Mavrodi, a Co-Founder of MMM once owed MMM investors in Russia $1.5 billion. In 2007, he was convicted of duping 10,000 of $4.3 million. He won an election to become a Lawmaker in 1994 and got immunity, which was terminated in 1995. He promised annual returns of 3,000%.