Afeez Olatunji Adewale, 26, has been extradited from Nigeria to the United States to face charges in connection with the sexual extortion and death of a young man in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced that Adewale was charged by indictment with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lynne A. Sitarski in Philadelphia.
Adewale was arrested in Nigeria on August 17, 2023, during an operation conducted with the FBI aimed at apprehending individuals involved in sexual extortion targeting minors in the United States. His extradition to the U.S. took place on February 13, 2026, following coordination between multiple agencies including the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché in Abuja, and Nigerian security authorities such as Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Federal Ministry of Justice’s International Criminal Justice Cooperation Department, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Adewale is one of three defendants facing charges related to this case. His co-defendants, Imoleayo Samuel Aina (also known as “Alice Dave”), 27, and Samuel Olasunkanmi Abiodun, 26, were extradited to the United States in August 2024. Abiodun pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud; he received a five-year prison sentence from United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky in June 2025. Aina pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, interstate threat to injure reputation, receiving proceeds of extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and wire fraud; he was sentenced by Judge Slomsky in October 2025 to six years in prison.
The investigation was led by FBI Philadelphia’s Fort Washington Resident Agency along with the Abington Township Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Brown is prosecuting the case.
“The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations,” according to officials. “Every defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.”
