American EB-5 fraudster, a fugitive living in Nigeria, is behind crime syndicate trying to sell stolen crude oil

Marco A. Ramirez has a history of EB-5 fraud in the U.S. and Nigeria, the country he fled to after becoming an American fugitive in 2012. In addition to numerous counts of fraud, money laundering, forgery, extortion and other charges, Ramirez can now add trying to sell 48 million barrels of stolen crude oil to his lengthy criminal résumé.Read the Premium Times story