Nigeria, May 18 -- Findings have shown how an aide to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State defrauded United States and how he was tracked over his involvement in $350,000 (about N140 million) COVID-19 unemployment fraud.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Abidemi Rufai, Mr Abiodun's Senior Special Assistant, was nabbed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York last Friday.

He was allegedly planning to leave the U.S. for Amsterdam in Netherlands when he was arrested.

He is scheduled for a detention hearing Wednesday in a federal court at Tacoma.

According to Tessa Gorman, acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Mr Rufai used the identities of more than 100 Was...