A Nigerian national, Olusegun Adejorin, has been sentenced to eight years in a U.S. federal prison for orchestrating a business email compromise scam that defrauded two charitable organizations of over $7.5 million. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang imposed the sentence, which includes 96 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Adejorin was convicted of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and unauthorized access to a protected computer. He was extradited from Ghana to the United States in August 2024 and found guilty by a federal jury in December 2025.
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