International Fraud: Three Nigerians Extradited From Spain, UK To US 

Three Nigerian nationals accused of operating an international fraud scheme have been extradited to the Southern District of Florida in United States to face federal charges.

A release issued by the United States Department of Justice on Friday said that one of the Nigerians, Kennedy Ikponmwosa, was extradited from Spain and he made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres on April 18.

Iheanyichukwu Jonathan Abraham and Jerry Chucks Ozor were also extradited from the United Kingdom on Friday and would make their initial appearances before U.S. Magistrate Judge Eduardo I. Sanchez on Monday in Miami.

Ikponmwosa, 51, Ezennia Peter Neboh, 48, and Prince Amos Okey Ezemma, 49, of Madrid, Spain; and Abraham, 44, Ozor, 43, and Emmanuel Samuel, 39, of London, UK, will face federal charges in Miami, Florida.

According to the release, Neboh, Ikponmwosa, Abraham, Samuel and Ozor were arrested in April 2022 by authorities in Madrid and London, based on an indictment filed in the Southern District of Florida, and had remained incarcerated since then.

Samuel reportedly pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail fraud and wire fraud on March 27.

According to court documents, the defendants are charged with operating an inheritance fraud scheme.

Over the course of more than five years, they allegedly sent personalised letters to elderly consumers in the United States, falsely claiming that the sender was a representative of a bank in Spain and that the recipient was entitled to receive a multimillion-dollar inheritance left for the recipient by a family member who purportedly had died years before in Spain.

Victims were told that before they could receive their purported inheritance, they were required to send money for delivery fees, taxes and payments to avoid questioning from government authorities.

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