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Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng: Arizona romance and inheritance fraud case

The FBI says Boateng was arrested in Ghana on an extradition warrant and taken to Arizona; DOJ later reported a guilty plea.

FBI Ghana arrests and extraditions

Extradited from Ghana · 26 June 2025

Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng

Also known as: Dada Joe Remix · not Isaac Oduro Boateng

Pleaded guilty in 2026

Arizona romance and inheritance fraud case

Published case photo for Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng

Third-party press photo from Graphic Online; DOJ did not publish a subject portrait.

Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng was arrested in Ghana on 27 May 2025 and extradited to the United States on 26 June 2025. The FBI Phoenix Division's Sierra Vista office investigated the case.

Prosecutors alleged a romance and inheritance fraud scheme targeting older victims. A later DOJ release says Boateng pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and agreed to restitution of approximately $4.4 million. He is a different person from Isaac Oduro Boateng in the New York case.

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