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A 26-year-old Nigerian, Afeez Adewale, has been extradited to the United States to face charges relating to the sexual extortion and death of a young man in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The extradition was confirmed by US Attorney David Metcalf in a statement released by the Department of Justice on Wednesday. Adewale faces charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, and he appeared before US Magistrate Judge Lynne Sitarski in federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Adewale was initially arrested in Nigeria on 17 August 2023 as part of a broader operation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation targeting sexual extortionists preying on minors in the United States.
The 26-year-old was extradited on 13 February 2026, with assistance from 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 said.
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, receiving a six-year prison sentence in October 2025.
