Afeez Olatunji Adewale has been extradited from Nigeria to the United States to face charges linked to the sexual extortion and death of a young man in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The development was confirmed in a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and in a post on X by FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday.
Adewale, 26, was arrested in Nigeria in August 2023 as part of a wider FBI operation targeting sexual extortionists who prey on minors in the United States and was formally taken into U.S. custody with the assistance of Nigerian authorities.