A 26-year-old Nigerian,Afeez Olatunji Adewale
has been extradited to the United States over a sexual extortion case that led to the death of a teenager in the country.
In a statement published by the US government on Wednesday, Adewale was extradited to the US on Friday, February 13, 2026, after he was arrested in 2023 in Nigeria over the sextortion case.
The US government said the support of Nigeria’s attorney general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, the federal ministry of justice’s international criminal justice cooperation department, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was essential to Adewale’s extradition.
“Adewale was arrested in Nigeria on August 17, 2023, as part of a wider operation with the FBI to apprehend sexual extortionists targeting minors in the United States,” the statement reads.
“He was extradited to the United States on Friday, February 13, 2026, with the assistance of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché in Abuja, and the FBI, who took him into custody.”
The sextortion case involved Jack Sullivan, a student who committed suicide after being targeted in an online sexual extortion scheme.
Two Nigerians — Samuel Aina and Samuel Olasunkanmi Abiodun — have been previously extradited to the US over the case.
On July 31, 2024, Aina and Abiodun were taken into custody by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a Nigerian court ordered their extradition.
In August 2024, the duo was charged in court over wire fraud and sexual extortion.
In December 2024, Abiodun pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud. He was sentenced 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 and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Adewale is the third Nigerian to be extradited to the US over the case.
He is facing charges bordering on the sexual extortion and death of the victim in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He appeared before the court on Tuesday
Credit: The Cable
