Fred Ajudua
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Fred Ajudua is a Nigerian citizen currently standing trial in Nigeria for alleged involvement in advance fee fraud "419" charges. These charges relate to collecting money under false pretences from Nelson Allen, a Canadian who allegedly lost $285,000 to Ajudua and is the only foreigner to have given mail-fraud evidence in a Nigerian court of law. Other suspected Ajudua victims include Technex Import and Export Company of Germany, which lost the equivalent of $230,000 USD, and a German woman who lost the equivalent of $350,000 USD trying to collect purported dividends left by her late husband. It is expected that there are many more victims yet to come forward.
The court has heard how Allen visited the Central Bank of Nigeria with Ajudua, where they met an assistant director of the bank who "opened a file on his desk containing original documents of the contract and check for $28.5 million."
Ajudua, currently in the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in Lagos, Nigeria, is among several inmates who have teaching appointments under the Africa Resources Initiative Education Foundation (ARIEF). He is teaching basic law.
