A 26-year-old Nigerian, Afeez Adewale, has been extradited to the United States to face charges related to the sexual extortion and death of a young man in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

This was disclosed by a US Attorney, David Metcalf, in a statement issued by the Department of Justice on Wednesday.

Adewale was charged with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, and he appeared in federal court in Philadelphia before US Magistrate Judge Lynne Sitarski on Tuesday.

He was arrested in Nigeria on August 17, 2023, as part of a wider operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to arrest sexual extortionists targeting minors in the US.

The 26-year-old was extradited to the US on February 13, 2026, with the help of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché in Abuja, and the FBI, who took him into custody.

“The support and assistance of Nigerian security authorities was essential to this effort, notably that of Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Federal Ministry of Justice’s International Criminal Justice Cooperation Department, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,” the statement read.

Adewale’s co-defendants, 27-year-old Imoleayo Aina, also known as Alice Dave, and 26-year-old Samuel Abiodun, were extradited to the US in August 2024.

Abiodun pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud and was sentenced by US District Judge Joel H. Slomsky in June 2025 to five years in prison.

Aina later pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, interstate threat to injure reputation, receiving proceeds of extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and wire fraud, and was sentenced by Judge Slomsky in October 2025 to six years in prison. (Saturday PUNCH)

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