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Isaac Oduro Boateng: One of three defendants transferred to New York
DOJ says Boateng was among three defendants extradited from Ghana in an FBI-investigated alleged romance-scam and business-email-compromise case.
FBI Ghana arrests and extraditions
Arrived from Ghana · 7 August 2025
Isaac Oduro Boateng
Also known as: Kofi Boat
Indicted; extradited
One of three defendants transferred to New York
Existing Crime Watch Global case photograph. The DOJ release did not publish individual portraits.
The Southern District of New York and the FBI announced that Ghana extradited Isaac Oduro Boateng, Inusah Ahmed and Derrick Van Yeboah. The three arrived in the United States on 7 August 2025 to face an indictment.
Prosecutors allege a Ghana-based criminal organisation stole more than $100 million from victims through romance scams and business email compromise. The sum describes the alleged enterprise, not a finding that Boateng personally stole that amount. The indictment is an allegation; a fourth named defendant, Patrick Kwame Asare, was reported at large at the time and is not included among the extradited people.
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