Afeez Olatunji Adewale, a 26-year-old Nigerian, 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 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. Details of the specific charges and the circumstances surrounding the teenager’s death were not immediately disclosed in the statement.
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