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The US has secured the extradition of Nigerian citizen Abiola Kayode over wire fraud charges, the US Department of Justice said.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old had previously been on the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ (FBI) Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List.<\/p>\n
Kayode was accused of sending false e-mails to employees of US firm where he posed as a business executive, telling them to wire funds to accounts he and his associates controlled.<\/p>\n
“These bank accounts largely belonged to victims of internet romance scams, who were instructed by co-conspirators to transfer the funds to other bank accounts,” the federal Department of Justice’s District Attorney for the Midwestern state of Nebraska said.<\/p>\n
\nGhana extradites suspect after co-conspirators convicted<\/h2>\n
Ghanaian authorities granted a US request for extradition and handed him over to FBI special agents, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
The suspect then appeared in court on Thursday and remains detained pending trial.<\/p>\n
The district attorney’s office said that several co-conspirators had already been convicted, “with sentences ranging from 49-96 months and millions in restitution,” while others were yet to be apprehended.<\/p>\n
The statement said that Ghanaian authorities assisted the FBI in investigations.<\/p>\n
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