A Kenyan citizen has been indicted in the United States for allegedly committing international money laundering through a non-profit organization that feeds school children.
According to a reports, Ahmednaji Maalim Aftin Sheikh, 28, played a crucial role in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, the biggest pandemic-era fraud in the country.
Millions of dollars were stolen in the scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic as persons made fraudulent reimbursement requests for meals they never served.
Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson said that Sheikh, the 74th suspect to be charged, helped hide millions of dollars abroad in Feeding Our Future fraud proceeds for his brother Abdiaziz Farah.
The prosecution of the case is ongoing, as the seizure and forfeiture of the ill-secured assets takes course.
