Nigerian accused in global cyber-crime ring dies in jail
Published 3:00 pm Friday, December 4, 2015
POPLARVILLE, Miss. (AP) — One of the nine Nigerians arrested in South Africa in a global cyber-crime ring has died in custody at the Pearl River County jail.
County coroner Derek Turnage tells The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/1ToXo8J) 41-year-old Sesan Olumide Farin was playing basketball at the jail last Friday when he collapsed. Turnage say an autopsy showed Farin suffered from heart disease and died of natural causes.
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Farin was arrested in South Africa in May 2014 after a Biloxi woman reported a scam that resulted in an international investigation of assorted scams, identity theft and the takeover of financial accounts.
A federal grand jury indicted Farin on two conspiracy charges involving fraud and one count of money laundering.