By Moses Nosike

Adesuwa Renee Ogiozee, is a Nigerian living in America for years now, and like other ethnic citizens in US, Adesuwa was honestly carrying out her normal car business when the unexpected hit her. She was under house arrest for 4 years.

Speaking to a selected journalists from her home in America via zoom, Adesuwa expressed joy of regaining freedom four years after the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) placed her in home confinement over allegations of fraud including charging her to the United States District Court. 

She regained freedom after the United States District Judge, Martha Vazquez, issued an order dismissing the counts against her. The order of the court, seen by the media reads: “This matter came before the court on the United States’ motion to dismiss counts. The court is fully advised in the premises, and finds that the motion should be, and hereby is, granted. Therefore, the following counts are hereby dismissed with prejudice: Counts 1 and 19 and the forfeiture allegation in indictment 20-CR-2124-MV as to Adesuwa Renee Ogiozee. It is hereby ordered that the counts listed above are hereby dismissed as to Adesuwa Renee Ogiozee.”

A car dealer, Adesuwa’s ordeal started in 2021 after the FBI traced part of the proceeds of fraud involving one Joseph Olaosibikan Olawuyi to her account.

Olawuyi had bought a Mercedes GLE 350 from Adesuwa in 2016 with proceeds from fraud obtained from one Jude Hamsel, a female U.S. citizen from Convention G.A.

Recounting her experience via a Zoom press conference, Adesuwa said, “After registering my car business, many people from Nigeria started reaching out to me through social media and the business was actually booming and I loved every bit of it. My ordeal started when I was in my house one morning still sleeping and someone started banging on my door. I thought that my neighbour had an emergency, so I rushed to open the door and there were the FBI operatives. They told me that somebody purchased a car from me in 2016 and the person paid about $11,000 dollars for the car. 

They gave me the car information. I was wondering if there was any car I didn’t deliver. They said the car was delivered but the last payment the person made was a fraudulent payment.

“The story was that the boy met a lady through a dating website and she sent over $550,000 to him. But the boy did not send all this money to me. The boy had been paying gradually for the car based on the payment plan that had been drawn.

“That is how they arrested me. This is me that has never had a speeding ticket. I don’t have a criminal record. After the arrest, they said I had to pay $25,000 to be released. They seized my two Mercedez cars that worth more than $250,000. They seized all my computers, three cell phones and jewelry. As if that was not all. They said I had to be on a monitoring device, which is something they put on criminals.

“They strap the device on the person’s leg and assign it to a police officer who will be monitoring you daily. With that, you don’t have any privacy. They can come to your house anytime. They didn’t stop there; they said I could not step outside. So, for four years, I was unable to step out of my door without writing to the police for approval. And when I get the approval, I dare not stay one extra minute outside or else they will throw me into jail. This is what I went through for four good years.

“Now I’m free to move freely. They have returned my Nigerian passport, both the expired one and the new one that I just did before the case started.”

According to Adesuwa, the tracing of the culprit and his admission to the crime during interrogation by both the Nigeria Police and the FBI paved the way for my freedom.

She said, “When the FBI came after me, we went online and sought this boy out. We found him on his Facebook page; he was even planning his wedding. We got my uncle involved and he reported the matter at the Office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone 2, Lagos. We even involved the military. In fact, there was nobody we did not involve. We tricked him to come and meet us in one restaurant, as we wanted to do some solar power installations. He came and the military held him and handed him over to the police.

“As soon as he got into the police net, he started confessing to what he had done and how sorry he was for his action. He said, he was even coming to my Facebook page but he did not know that what I was going through involved him. He said he had since abandoned fraudulent practices and given his life to Christ and begged me to forgive him.”

Journalists saw a letter of apology written to Adesuwa by Olawuyi, dated June 6, 2024, and also a Police Investigation Report by the AIG Zone 2, dated March 28, 2025, which detailed the joint interrogation of Olawuyi by the Nigeria Police and the FBI, where he admitted to the crime.

Relishing her freedom, Adesuwa said, “I went through trauma. Meanwhile, the customer that committed the crime is in Nigeria, walking freely. He even opened a solar system business and got married last year. But I was put in home confinement for four years. I am happy that God has given me the opportunity to tell the story.”