Nigerian National Faces Charges Ghana for Alleged Charity Scam

A Nigerian, Olusegun Adejorin, has been arraigned before a court in Ghana over an alleged fraudulent $7.5 million business e-mail fraud compromise scheme in the US.

He was arraigned, following his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) which accused him of infiltrating the account of two us charity organizations in New York and Maryland.

The accused, according to Ghana’s graphic newspapers on its website, was arrested in Ghana on December 29,2023.

According to the report, the accused was docked on an eight count charges showing that he committed the alleged fraud between June and August 2020.

If convicted, the accused will face a maximum of 20 years for every count, as well as mandatory two years jail.

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Although withdrawals of this nature over $10,000 required approval from at least one of several individuals authorized by the Maryland investment services charity, he still managed to persuade it to transfer millions of dollars in this way.

Adejorin allegedly used classic BEC techniques including registering spoofed domain names and concealing fraudulent emails by moving them to an inconspicuous location in the mailbox, according to the US Department of Justice (DoJ).

The Nigerian is facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each of five counts of wire fraud, as well as a maximum of five years for unauthorized access to a protected computer and a mandatory two-year sentence for each of the two counts of aggravated identity theft.

After being arrested in Ghana on December 29 2023, Adejorin is being detained pending a first court appearance in the West African nation.

It’s unclear how long extradition will take, although the country has a strong diplomatic relationship with the US.

BEC was the second highest grossing cybercrime type of 2022, amassing over $2.7bn for fraudsters, according to the FBI.