By Desire Emmanuel
The United States Attorney of Philadelphia, David Metcalf, on Wednesday, February 18, announced that Afeez Olatunji Adewale, aged 26 years, was extradited from Nigeria to the United States to face charges related to the sexual extortion and death of a young man in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Adewale is charged by indictment with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. He appeared in federal magistrate court in Philadelphia before US Magistrate Judge, Lynne A. Sitarski, on Wednesday afternoon.
According to a statement by the US Department of Justice, Adewale was arrested in Nigeria on August 17, 2023 and detained in Nigeria as part of a wider operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to apprehend sexual extortionists targeting minors in the United States.
He was extradited to the United States on Friday, February 13, 2026, with the assistance of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché in Abuja, and the FBI, who took him into custody.
The statement added that the support and assistance of Nigerian security authorities was essential to this effort, notably that of 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 (EFCC).
Adewale’s co-defendants, Imoleayo Samuel Aina, aka “Alice Dave,” 27, and Samuel Olasunkanmi Abiodun, 26, were extradited to the United States in August 2024, the statement added.
During his trial, Abiodun pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud and was sentenced by United States District Judge Joel Slomsky in June 2025 to five years in prison.
Aina also pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, interstate threat to injure reputation, receiving proceeds of extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and wire fraud, and was sentenced by Judge Slomsky in October 2025 to six years in prison.
