Olumide Adediran Biography: Nigerian Fugitive Wanted in Long-Running Bank Fraud Case
Information tracked down by our reporters indicates that Olumide Adebiyi Adediran was born on October 11, 1968. He is about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs around 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
He has used a long list of aliases, including Kevin Olumide Adediran, Eric D. Williams, Stephen Dediyi, and Maxo Alexandre.
Make we look at the facts. In August 2001, he allegedly walked into a bank in Champaign, Illinois, and tried to cash a fraudulent cheque. He is also accused of using stolen personal information belonging to U.S. citizens to open bank accounts and credit-card accounts.
He fled the Central District of Illinois at the end of December 2001, just before his trial on bank fraud, identification document fraud, and credit-card fraud was due to start.
On January 2, 2002, a federal warrant was issued for violation of conditions of release. The FBI is offering up to ten thousand dollars for information that leads to his arrest and conviction.
He has known ties to South Florida. As it stands right now, more than twenty-four years later, he remains a free man on the FBI’s white-collar wanted list.
