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FBI nabs most-wanted fraudster Abiola Kayode who fled Nigeria to Ghana after $6 million business email racket

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.

In April 2023, law enforcement authorities in the Republic of Ghana arrested Kayode pursuant to a U.S. request for his extradition. Ghanaian authorities ultimately granted this request and surrendered Kayode to FBI special agents who brought him to the District of Nebraska. Kayode had an initial appearance on the Indictment on December 11, 2024. United States Magistrate Judge Michael D. Nelson ordered Kayode remain detained pending trial.

Kayode, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List, is alleged to have participated in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme from January 2015 to September 2016. The BEC scheme defrauded businesses in the District of Nebraska and elsewhere of more than $6 million.

According to the indictment, Kayode’s co-conspirators posed as the chief executive officer, president, owner, or other executive of the targeted company. Using e-mail s spoofed to make it appear as though they were from the company’s true business executive, Kayode’s 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’s co-conspirators.

Some of Kayode’s 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’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,570,938.05 in restitution. Pelumi Fawehinimi, a bank facilitator, was sentenced in March 2019 to 72 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,014,159.60 in restitution.

Onome Ijomone, a romance scammer, was sentenced in January 2020 to 60 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $508,934.40 in restitution after his successful extradition from Poland. Other co-conspirators remain at large. Alex Ogunshakin, a co-conspirator who provided bank s for the scheme, was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment in October 2024 after his successful extradition from Nigeria.
Four years ago, we identified six Nigerian nationals suspected of defrauding individual victims and businesses in Nebraska and other states of millions of dollars,” said FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel. “Today, Abiola Kayode is the second of those co-conspirators to be extradited to stand trial in Nebraska. Our 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 – 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.”

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in securing Kayode’s extradition.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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Nice one.....one down.

Set awon huspuppi ati woody

$6milli scam

Go Hushy in the dungeon

mairogo:
Abiola Kayode, 37, of

The names here were bolded
https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/8292136/3-nigerian-men-indicted-us#133277872

Yorubas and 419 are like 5 and 6. Na dem spoil our global image with their yahoo yahoo scams.

CyrusVI:
$6milli scam

Go Hushy in the dungeon

When you have no clue that your hypocrisy is open on the forum, it shows how low your IQ is.

Is it no longer poto poto region?

Stigma no go follow am too?

Babablu bulabu.

Ndi ofe

CyrusVI:
$6milli scam

Go Hushy in the dungeon

There are good ambassadors of the country and there's this guy from skull miners area.


When this country split, everybody go dey answer hin papa name. Na that time stigma go follow those ones and honor go follow the rest

Hmmmmm, wahala

Abiola Kayode



YoruBad

Zooposki:
Yorubas and 419 are like 5 and 6. Na dem spoil our global image with their yahoo yahoo scams.

See how they have avoided this thread, just mention IPOB, Obi or the South East and they will start foaming in the mouth.

Not a single picture of the guy

Say no to fraud.....kayode no go hear......he don carry free flight go US

Nigerians sha! Oh boy ! $6metres? Na where these ones dey bomb dey catch clients sef🤔??.

Sad

We know the tribe and owners of scam in Nigeria, giving us bad names in the international place.

They finally caught the guy!

CyrusVI:
$6milli scam

Go Hushy in the dungeon

hypocrite bstrd this one no be ambassador of Yoruba region abi?

Well done Ghana

mairogo:


See how they have avoided this thread, just mention IPOB, Obi or the South East and they will start foaming in the mouth.

if not this people Nigerians will go UK without visa

Yoruba people self

The wàste no dey disappoint. Them dey always represent wella both home and abroad.

Omo na wa o, yahoo scammers everywhere... your mates dey do cbex, you dey do scam

Good move

Trash

Zooposki:
Yorubas and 419 are like 5 and 6. Na dem spoil our global image with their yahoo yahoo scams.

another yellub biggest export

Good job!
Let him do the time....

Life without peace