BY: News Peddlers
Fatade
Idowu Olamilekan, wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over his
involvement in wire fraud in multiple states of the United States, has been
extradited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to face charges.
Announcing
the arrest and extradition on its website, the EFCC stated that the
suspect has been on the FBI wanted list for stealing over $3.5 million worth of
equipment.
Mr
Olamilekan’s extradition took place after a notice was received by the EFCC
from the FBI, through the U.S. Legal Attache over the role the Nigerian played
in several fraud cases in various cities and academic institutions across the
U.S. Peoples Gazette reports.
The
suspect’s trial was overseen by a grand jury in the Southern District of New
York, where he was charged for wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen
property, and identity theft.
Mr
Olamilekan was arrested by operatives of the EFCC in September 2021, after
which Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi Lagos,
granted the request to extradite the suspect to the U.S. to face criminal
charges against him.
Meanwhile,
another extradition request involving disgraced police officer Abba Kyari, for
his dealings with internet fraudster Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas as a gun for hire
in a multimillion-dollar fraud, remains in limbo.
In 2021, former Deputy Attorney General of California, Otis Wright, ordered the FBI to track down Mr Kyari and produce him to answer for his crime. However, the Muhammadu Buhari regime is yet to make any meaningful headway in Mr Kyari’s extradition.
SPURCE: PEOPLES GAZETTE