Air Peace’s CEO encounters fresh legal troubles with a US court’s renewed arrest warrant. Read more on the unfolding case and potential impact.”
A United States court has reissued an arrest warrant for Allen Onyema, the founder and CEO of Air Peace Limited, related to a $20 million bank fraud case that has been under investigation for five years.
The federal district court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta renewed the warrant on October 9, following the introduction of new charges in the case.
These charges, included in a superseding indictment filed on October 8, encompass obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice, raising the total number of charges against Onyema and his co-defendant, Ejiroghene Eghagha, to 38.
The earlier charges comprised conspiracy, money laundering, bank fraud, credit application fraud, and identity theft.
On the same day the new indictment was submitted, Assistant US Attorney Christopher Huber requested the issuance of a new arrest warrant for Onyema, succeeding a previous warrant issued in 2019.
It is important to note that prior to the 2019 charges, a magistrate at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Russell Vineyard, had issued an arrest warrant for Onyema and Eghagha in Canada.
American prosecutors sought this warrant to facilitate the apprehension of the suspects by Canadian law enforcement if they were located within that jurisdiction.
Additionally, another arrest warrant was issued on November 19, 2019, by Justin Anand, an American magistrate of the same court, directing the US Marshals Service to detain them.
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