{"id":207881,"date":"2025-09-22T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-u-s-begins-prosecution-of-nigerian-extradited-from-uk-for-2-million-fraud-sextortion\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:38:02","slug":"nigeria-u-s-begins-prosecution-of-nigerian-extradited-from-uk-for-2-million-fraud-sextortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-u-s-begins-prosecution-of-nigerian-extradited-from-uk-for-2-million-fraud-sextortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: U.S. Begins Prosecution of Nigerian Extradited From UK for $2 Million Fraud, Sextortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Authorities in the United States have commenced the prosecution of a Nigerian national, Olamide Shanu, who was extradited from the United Kingdom over his alleged role in cyber-enabled schemes involving sextortion, romance scams, and wire fraud through which he &#8220;obtained at least $2 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office announced that Shanu, 34, of Lagos, Nigeria, made his initial court appearance on Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Debora K. Grasham in the District of Idaho. Acting U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509220157.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the United States have commenced the prosecution of a Nigerian national, Olamide Shanu, who was extradited from the United Kingdom over his alleged role in cyber-enabled schemes involving sextortion, romance scams, and wire fraud through which he &#8220;obtained at least $2 million.&#8221; The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office announced that Shanu, 34, of Lagos, Nigeria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8082,14922,8666,5118,257,4687,393,482,4545,52406,254,2282],"class_list":["post-207881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-extradited","tag-fraud","tag-million","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-prosecution","tag-sextortion","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/207881","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=207881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}