A Nigerian man based in Maryland, U.S.A,  Arinze Micheal Ozor, 36-year-old, has been charged for using fake passports to facilitate a money laundering conspiracy involving nearly $1m, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland released on Monday.

The accused, on Friday, pleaded guilty to the federal charges of forgery or false use of a passport.

Ozor, who is dual citizen of the U.S. and Nigeria, used at least two passports to open eight so-called “drop accounts”,  he took more than $976,000 from business email compromise schemes and romance fraud schemes and put it in those accounts.

Officials say Ozor used a Ghanaian passport to open five bank accounts and a Beninese passport to open three additional accounts. The money was then largely sent to other entities involved in the schemes.

Ozor is expected to be sentenced in May and there is a probability that he  could spend up to 10 years in prison.

An attorney representing Ozor didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment, The Baltimore Sun reported.