LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A federal jury in Salt Lake City has found two foreign nationals guilty of distributing drugs and laundering money using the “dark web.”
Oluwole Adegboruwa, 54, of Las Vegas, and Enrique Isong, 49, of Los Angeles, were found guilty on Monday, May 20 on multiple federal charges. These charges include conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and commit money laundering, which were committed through the U.S. Mail and interstate commerce. In total, Adegboruwa’s operation was determined to have yielded around $8 million.
The pair will be forced to forfeit $380,395.64 in cash, $15,500 in place of a 2017 Dodge Charger, and 26 money orders each totaling around $9,400. He was also ordered to forfeit cryptocurrency valued at more than $15 million.
Trail evidence ranging from October 2016 through May 2019 showed that Adegboruwa sold more than 300,000 oxycodone pills to customers on dark web marketplaces. Customers paid Adegboruwa, who operated his vendor pages as “King Odua” and “Alagbada726,” with cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, which he later sold for traditional currency.
Adegboruwa would later testify that he was the only one with access to his vendor pages, and would often direct others to package and ship the pills around the country. His co-conspirators would also describe to a jury the way he instructed them to sort, package, and ship the pills to “minimize damage and detection.”
Adegboruwa and Isong are both set to be sentenced in August 2024 in Salt Lake City.
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