An Esher member of a Nigerian organised crime gang responsible for more than £1million of fraud and money laundering has been jailed.
Olawale Kashimawo, 31, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison at Kingston Crown Court on May 17, after admitting two counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
His partner Emmanuel Mmaduike, known as Bigdoz, of Ashmore Road, Woolwich, was jailed for six years and 10 months in March, 2017.
The pair got thousands of business email addresses and passwords in order to divert payments to themselves that should have been going to the companies.
Mmaduike gained access to the emails and changed invoices to direct payments to mule bank accounts run by Kashimawo, of Claycorn Court.
It is believed they fraudulently made more than £1million in this way between April and November 2015.
They spent the money on a lavish lifestyle, regularly posing for photographs with flash cars, champagne and wads of cash.
The National Crime Agency began investigating the duo in November 2015, after receiving a report of a £24,000 fraud.
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