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Abiola Ayorinde Kayode: Former FBI cyber-fugitive brought from Ghana to Nebraska
DOJ says Ghanaian authorities arrested Kayode at the U.S. request and handed him to FBI agents for transfer to Nebraska.
FBI Ghana arrests and extraditions
Arrested in Ghana · April 2023; U.S. court appearance 11 December 2024
Abiola Ayorinde Kayode
Nigerian citizen; arrested in Ghana
Indicted; extradited
Former FBI cyber-fugitive brought from Ghana to Nebraska
No verified subject photograph in the cited official release
Ghanaian law-enforcement authorities arrested Abiola Kayode in April 2023 pursuant to a U.S. extradition request. After extradition was granted, he was surrendered to FBI agents, who brought him to Nebraska. His first reported U.S. court appearance was 11 December 2024.
Kayode, a Nigerian citizen formerly listed among FBI cyber fugitives, was indicted over an alleged business-email-compromise scheme that prosecutors say cost businesses more than $6 million. The charges in the linked announcement are allegations, not a conviction. His nationality is not Ghanaian, but the arrest and transfer route was Ghana to the U.S.
Official reporting
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