The Nigeria Police Force’s Special Fraud Unit has this month declared Elusoji Oluwasegun Roland wanted after a Federal High Court in Lagos issued a warrant over an alleged ₦1.207 billion fraud that spans a 2024 Mercedes Benz GLE 63S and two high value property transactions.
The police circular names Roland, supplies a physical description and lists a last known address in Conroe, Texas, United States.
The allegations, as set out in the SFU bulletin, are stark. Roland is said to have collected ₦232 million to purchase a black 2024 Mercedes Benz GLE 63S, VIN recorded in the circular.
He is further accused of obtaining ₦525 million for a first mansion and ₦450 million for a second, sums which the police say were not applied to the promised purchases.
The offences are recorded as having occurred on 1 November 2023 in the United States, a fact that turns this matter into a cross border enforcement test for Nigerian and US authorities.
What we found and what we could not find
Publicly available material is, at present, dominated by the Nigeria Police circular and reprints of that bulletin by national and regional news sites.
We searched court databases, mainstream US federal docket aggregators and commercial filings for any indictments, criminal complaints or asset forfeiture instruments in the United States linked to Roland.
No US court filings or press releases matching his name or the exact VIN were located in open source searches at the time of writing.
The only verifiable primary document available to journalists is the police wanted circular published in Nigerian outlets.
That absence matters. The United States has in the past prosecuted Nigerians for large scale fraud and secured convictions and forfeitures when robust evidence and mutual legal assistance were in place.
The Obinwanne Okeke case shows how US prosecutors and the FBI can extradite, prosecute and obtain forfeiture where evidence supports it.
But that precedent depends on court dockets, indictments and public statements by prosecutors. None of those documents are publicly available for the Roland matter as yet.
Victim testimony and why it remains missing
No victim interviews appear in the public record. None of the media reprints carries identifiable quoted victims, nor are there court affidavits or filed statements attached to Nigerian filings that would normally contain sworn victim accounts.
That gap makes independent verification of payment routes, promises made, and the timelines of alleged transfers difficult.
Without victim testimony we cannot determine whether the payments were wire transfers to US accounts, transfers within Nigeria, or moved through third party intermediaries.
A preliminary asset tracing timeline
This timeline is provisional and based solely on the SFU circular and media reports referencing it.
1 November 2023 — Police say the alleged offences occurred in the United States. Victims purportedly handed over funds for a vehicle purchase and two property transactions.
November 2023 — Payments allegedly received. The police circular lists the sums and the VIN for the vehicle said to be purchased with ₦232 million.
2024–2025 — No public US court filings located in open source searches. No public record of title transfers for the properties nor DMV registration traced to the VIN was available to journalists at time of reporting.
August 2025 — Federal High Court Lagos issues warrant and SFU publishes wanted circular. Nigerian outlets reproduce the circular.
Why more documents matter and our planned next steps
To move from allegation to prosecution and asset recovery investigators must secure documentary proof. Key records to obtain are US bank payment records and subpoenas, title searches for the two properties in the relevant US counties, DMV records for the VIN quoted, and any US grand jury or criminal complaint if one exists.
Forensic accounting would then trace transfers through correspondent banks or intermediary accounts. At present those records are not in the public domain and must be obtained through formal legal requests or mutual legal assistance mechanisms between Nigeria and the US.
What this means for victims
If the police circular is accurate the sums involved are life changing for the victims. The absence of public court filings and of interviewed victims hampers our ability to explain where the money moved and who else may have been involved.
Victims seeking restitution will need counsel capable of navigating both US and Nigerian procedure, and law enforcement will need to use MLAT channels and, where appropriate, civil asset recovery tools to attempt a return of funds.
Call to action and transparency pledge
Atlantic Post has begun direct outreach to the Nigeria Police Force SFU, the Federal High Court registry in Lagos and to US county record offices linked to the Conroe area.
We will file Freedom of Information and public records requests for property and vehicle registrations and will pursue formal requests for court dockets in the United States.
We also invite victims or anyone with documentary evidence including bank payment advices, escrow agreements or title documents to contact our investigations desk at. We will protect sources and verify materials before publication.
In summary, this is a high value allegation, with clear cross border elements and a narrow public record so far. The police have performed the first step by securing a warrant and publishing a wanted circular.
The urgent next steps are for Nigerian investigators to work with US authorities, for public court records to be produced if they exist, and for victims to come forward.
Atlantic Post will continue to pursue filings, title searches and interviews and will publish what we can verify with documents and sworn testimony.
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