A Georgia man was arrested last week and charged with money laundering in a scheme to defraud a Bergen County business of nearly $1 million, authorities said.

Olanrewaju B. Adeosun, 39, was arrested in Queens, New York, on Nov. 9 and charged with first-degree money laundering, according to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella.

Musella said police in Palisades Park first contacted the prosecutor’s office in July 2024 to report a fraudulent money wire that resulted in a loss of $982,148.28 to a local business.

An investigation lasting more than a year revealed the stolen money was “moved across multiple financial accounts and into multiple cryptocurrency exchanges,” Musella said in a statement.

“Detectives determined (Adeosun) used a fictitious cryptocurrency account to distribute the s

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