Afeez Olatunji Adewale has been extradited from Nigeria to the United States (US) to face charges linked to the sexual extortion and subsequent death of a young man in Pennsylvania, US.
This was disclosed in a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and in a post on X by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Kash Patel.
The statement by the US Attorney’s office reads in part, “Adewale is charged by indictment with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. He appeared in federal court in Philadelphia before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lynne A. Sitarski yesterday.
“Adewale was arrested in Nigeria on August 17, 2023, as part of a wider operation with the FBI to apprehend sexual extortionists targeting minors in the United States.”
According to reports, he was extradited on February 13, 2026, by the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché in Abuja, and the FBI in partnership with their Nigerian counterparts, including the Attorney General of the Federation, the Federal Ministry of Justice’s International Criminal Justice Cooperation Department, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Adewale’s co-defendants had earlier been extradited to the United States in connection with the same case and have since been convicted and sentenced.
In August 2024, his accomplices, Imoleayo Samuel Aina, also known as “Alice Dave,” and Samuel Olasunkanmi Abiodun, were extradited to the US.
Abiodun pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Aina initially pleaded not guilty to cyberstalking, interstate threat to injure reputation, receiving proceeds of extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and wire fraud but eventually changed his plea. He was sentenced to six years in prison in October 2025.
