Nigerian suspected fugitive, Ehis Akhimie, has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face charges related to organised crime, including an international fraud scheme targeting elderly consumers in the U.S.
The US Department of Justice confirmed his extradition in an email sent to our correspondent on Friday.
The report stated that the suspect’s extradition resulted from extensive coordination and cooperation between the DOJ and law enforcement agencies across multiple countries.
According to the report, the coordinated efforts involved law enforcement agencies from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Spain, and the UK.
As a result of this collaboration, the Nigerian fraudster was extradited from the UK alongside several other suspects, including individuals accused of murder, child rape, leading the MS-13 gang, alien smuggling, Colombian drug trafficking, Russian cybercrime, and immigration fraud.
“The dedicated, persistent work of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs with foreign partners resulted in the extradition of fugitives wanted in the United States for violent crimes,” said Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division Matthew R. Galeotti.
“The Justice Department will aggressively pursue and bring to justice to the United States transnational criminals and hold them accountable for the death and violence they have committed here and abroad,” Galeotti.
The suspected 41-year-old Nigerian fraudster was extradited from the UK to the Southern District of Florida, where he faced charges for allegedly participating in a transnational criminal organisation that ran an inheritance fraud scheme targeting elderly consumers in the U.S.
The report partly read, “The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in securing the defendants’ arrests and extraditions along with the U.S. Marshals Service.
“The Justice Department thanks and acknowledges the instrumental role of its law enforcement partners in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom for making these extraditions possible.”
TheNigerian Metro reports that two brothers from Nigeria, Samuel and Samson Ogoshi, who targeted a 17-year-old in a sextortion scam, were sentenced to 17 years and six months in jail in the US last September.
The convicted brothers, from Lagos, allegedly lured Jordan DeMay into sending them explicit images by pretending to be a girl his age – then blackmailed him.
The victim reportedly killed himself less than six hours after they started talking on Instagram.
