Overview
- The FBI announced on Wednesday that it added Fahad Mohamed Nur to its Most Wanted Fraudsters list and is offering up to $150,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction.
- Prosecutors say Nur ran a Minneapolis vendor that submitted fake invoices to the Federal Child Nutrition Program and diverted more than $5 million before laundering proceeds into property and vehicles.
- Nur has been a fugitive since 2022 and the FBI says he has ties to Somalia and may be living there, prompting the agency to seek international cooperation to locate him.
- FBI Director Kash Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche framed the addition as part of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud’s wider campaign, which officials say has yielded arrests linked to the new list and uncovered over $13 billion in suspected fraud.
- Local reporting and viral social-media videos helped trigger federal probes into Minnesota schemes, and investigators say recovering money taken from child meal programs could restore funds intended for low-income children and pressure more fugitives to return or be captured.