United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced the extradition of Abiola Kayode, 37, of Nigeria, to the District of Nebraska on a Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud Indictment, filed in August 2019 in Omaha, Nebraska.<\/p>\n
In April 2023, law enforcement authorities in Ghana arrested Kayode pursuant to a U.S. request for his extradition.<\/p>\n
Ghanaian authorities ultimately granted this request and surrendered Kayode to FBI special agents who brought him to the District of Nebraska.<\/p>\n
Kayode had an initial appearance on the Indictment on 11 December 2024. United States Magistrate Judge Michael D. Nelson ordered Kayode remain detained pending trial.<\/p>\n
Kayode, who was on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List, is alleged to have participated in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme from January 2015 to September 2016.<\/p>\n
The BEC scheme defrauded businesses in the District of Nebraska and elsewhere of more than US$6 million. According to the indictment, Kayode\u2019s co-conspirators posed as the chief executive officer, president, owner, or other executive of the targeted company.<\/p>\n
Using e-mail accounts spoofed to make it appear as though they were from the company\u2019s true business executive, Kayode\u2019s co-conspirators directed business employees or recipients of the e-mail to complete wire transfers. The business employees, believing the requests were legitimate, complied with the wire transfer requests and wired the money as instructed by Kayode\u2019s co-conspirators.<\/p>\n
It is alleged Kayode provided bank account information to the co-conspirators who sent the fraudulent e-mails, and which directed business employees to wire money to accounts controlled by Kayode and others. 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.<\/p>\n
Some of Kayode\u2019s co-conspirators have already been convicted and sentenced. Adewale Aniyeloye, one of the fraudsters sending the spoofed e-mails to the target business, was sentenced in February 2019 to 96 months\u2019 imprisonment and ordered to pay over US$1.5 million in restitution.<\/p>\n
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Pelumi Fawehinimi, a bank account facilitator, was sentenced in March 2019 to 72 months\u2019 imprisonment and ordered to pay US$1,014,159.60 in restitution. Onome Ijomone, a romance scammer, was sentenced in January 2020 to 60 months\u2019 imprisonment and ordered to pay US$508,934.40 in restitution after his successful extradition from Poland. Other co-conspirators remain at large.<\/p>\n
Alex Ogunshakin, a co-conspirator who provided bank accounts for the scheme, was sentenced to 45 months\u2019 imprisonment in October 2024 after his successful extradition from Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour years ago, we identified six Nigerian nationals suspected of defrauding individual victims and businesses in Nebraska and other states of millions of dollars,\u201d said FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel. \u201cToday, Abiola Kayode is the second of those co-conspirators to be extradited to stand trial in Nebraska.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur message to the remaining four co-conspirators; we are coming for you. Dismantling cyber-criminal groups that victimize U.S. citizens is a priority for the FBI, DOJ, and our international law enforcement partners. The FBI, working together with our partners in Ghana, particularly the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice, the Ghana Police Service \u2013 INTERPOL, and the Ghana Immigration Service, will continue to pursue and bring to justice criminals who engage in Business Email Compromise and other fraud schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Department of Justice\u2019s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in securing Kayode\u2019s extradition.<\/p>\n
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.<\/p>\n
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