Ranked in 2016 by Forbes among the 30 young people under 30 to follow, Obinwanne Okeke, 31, has just been arrested in the United States for fraud over $ 11 million. The founder of Invictus has been remanded in custody.
While waiting to have the last word of this incredible story, force is to note, the image of the young thirty, holder of a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in international relations and fight against terrorism (with distinction) of the Monash University, Australia, has cracked.
Known for founding the group Invictus, which has interests in real estate, oil, gas and renewable energy, Obinwanne Okeke
went to the United States apparently without knowing that he was being investigated by F.B.I. US investigators picked him up in Alexandria, Virginia, about 13 kilometers south of Washington DC.
In June 2018, Unatrac, an international subsidiary of heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, filed a complaint alleging that Mr. Okeke had unauthorized access to his chief financial officer’s e-mail account and authorized a series of fictitious invoices. an amount of $ 11 million.
The F.B.I. also found that Mr. Okeke had fooled an event specialist and used several e-mail accounts related to fraudulent online activities and reported in the F.B.I.
Nominated in 2017 in the category “Young African Business Leader” (West Africa) for the All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA), ranked in 2018 among the 100 most influential Forbes figures in Africa, the young entrepreneur, who benefits from the presumption of innocence, owes explanations to a wide range of organizations that have seen him as the leader of tomorrow. Like BBC, which gave him a “rising star” title in 2018, or the University of Pennsylvania who offered him a panel at the da Wharton Africa Business Forum
Outstanding communicator, Okeke named his company Invictus after one of Nelson Mandela’s favorite poems, written by William Ernest Henley, about the undefeated and invincible soul of a hard-working, impoverished worker .
