Maryland pair accused of defrauding mortgage lender - washingtonpost.com

A federal grand jury indicted two Marylanders on a dozen counts of wire fraud and identity theft this month in a 2008 scheme that used Baltimore properties to swindle a Beltsville lender out of more than $664,000, authorities said.

Cameroon native Dema Daiga, who lives in College Park, and Oluseun Oshosanya, 28, of Laurel appeared separately Monday in U.S. District Court. Bond was set at $2 million for Daiga, 28, entered the country after being granted asylum and is charged with committing the bulk of the scheme. A detention hearing was scheduled for Wednesday for Oshosanya, a dual citizen of Nigeria who is charged with six of the 12 counts his co-defendant faces.