A Nigerian nationwide was sentenced to 8 years in jail for his participation in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting United States tax preparation organizations given that 2019.
40-year-old Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu( likewise referred to as Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo therefore Kwan Leung)has actually pleaded guilty to conspiracy to devote computer system invasions and wire scams after being extradited from France to the United States in August 2025.
“Chukwuemeka Amachukwu believed he was operating safely offshore when he targeted his victims, but he has now been held to account and now faces a serious sentence for his crimes,” stated United States Attorney Jamie McDonald in a Monday news release.
“Amachukwu took part in sophisticated schemes to hack into US businesses, steal and use stolen identity information of victims, and commit fraud. These crimes imposed significant harm on the victims and the public, and so it is only appropriate that the crimes also come with a significant sentence for the defendant.”
According to court filesAmachukwu and his accomplices took more than $3 million after submitting deceptive tax and loan applications with the Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities utilizing their victims’ taken individual information.
Together with co-defendant Kingsley Uchelue Utulu and other Nigerian co-conspirators, Amachukwu introduced spearphishing attacks versus tax preparation companies in New York, Texas, and other US states in between 2019 and 2021, getting unapproved access to their targets’ computer systems and taking the tax and personally recognizable info (PII) of a minimum of 800 clients.
In overall, he presumably acquired about $2.5 million in deceitful tax refunds (after applying for $8.4 million in refunds) and another $819,000 through deceitful loan applications with the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.
Amachukwu was likewise associated with a phony financial investment plan that used prospective United States victims financial investments in what the fraudsters referred to as important standby letters of credit. These financial investments did not exist, and the scammers took more than $7 million from several victims.
In addition to the jail term, the court sentenced Amachukwu to one year of monitored release and bought him to pay $3.6 million in restitution and surrender almost $11 million.
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