LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas man identified as the mastermind in a multi-million dollar drug operation on the dark web was sentenced to 30 years in prison and must forfeit $20 million, according to a news release from the IRS-CI, the criminal investigative arm of the IRS.
In May, a federal jury in Utah found Oluwole Adegboruwa and a co-defendant Enrique Isong of Los Angeles guilty of numerous crimes including conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and money laundering.
Evidence at the sentencing hearing showed Adegboruwa sold more than 300,000 oxycodone pills on the dark web over three years from 2016 to 2019 exceeding $9 million in sales…