{"id":186518,"date":"2024-12-14T00:33:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fbi-wanted-nigerian-abiola-kayode-extradited-to-u-s-from-ghana-over-6m-cyber-scam\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T00:33:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:33:36","slug":"ghana-fbi-wanted-nigerian-abiola-kayode-extradited-to-u-s-from-ghana-over-6m-cyber-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fbi-wanted-nigerian-abiola-kayode-extradited-to-u-s-from-ghana-over-6m-cyber-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: FBI-Wanted Nigerian Abiola Kayode Extradited to U.S. From Ghana Over $6m Cyber Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">A Nigerian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/wanted\/cyber\/abiola-ayorinde-kayode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abiola Kayode<\/a>, who had been on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List has been extradited from Ghana to Nebraska, United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The extradition followed a conspiracy to commit wire fraud indictment filed against the 37-year-old Kayode in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">A statement from the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office, District of Nebraska on Thursday, said Kayode was arrested in April 2023 by Ghanaian authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">It noted that following a formal U.S. request for extradition, the suspect was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412130443.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian, Abiola Kayode, who had been on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List has been extradited from Ghana to Nebraska, United States. The extradition followed a conspiracy to commit wire fraud indictment filed against the 37-year-old Kayode in August 2019. A statement from the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office, District of Nebraska on Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[28870,258,256,6197,14922,50174,4508,4509,50175,257,482,13731,254,2282],"class_list":["post-186518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abiola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cyber","tag-extradited","tag-fbiwanted","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-kayode","tag-news","tag-nigerian","tag-scam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}