A Nigerian national who had been residing in Minnesota prior to his arrest, has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison, ordered to pay $1,692,945 in restitution after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.

In making the announcement, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado said that Adetomiwa Seun Akindele, 37, entered into a plea agreement, and will be deported to Nigeria after his prison sentence is finished.

Beginning in January 2018, and continuing until October 2018, Akindele posed as a wealthy Italian American businessman, “Frank Labato,” on a dating website, where he met a widowed Colorado woman, the news release said.

In February 2018, Akindele began emailing the victim, and in March 2018, the two began excha

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