Yahoo Boy Afeez Olatunji Adewale extradited to U.S. over sextortion, death of American citizen

Afeez Olatunji Adewale, a Yahoo Boy, has been arrested and extradited to the U.S. to face charges related to the sextortion and death of an American citizen.
Mr Adewale, 26, is the third among a gang of Nigerian-based fraudsters, arrested and extradited to the U.S. in connection with the sextortion and death of a U.S. citizen.
Mr Adewale appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge, Lynne A. Sitarski, on Wednesday at the federal magistrate court in Philadelphia.
He was charged with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Wednesday.
Mr Adewale was arrested in Nigeria on August 17, 2023 and extradited to the United States on Friday.
Mr Adewale’s co-defendants, Imoleayo Samuel Aina, aka Alice Dave, 27, and Samuel Olasunkanmi Abiodun, 26, were extradited to the U.S. in August 2024.
The duo were tried and sentenced by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky last year.
Mr Abiodun was sentenced in June 2025 to five years in prison for money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud, while Mr Aina was sentenced in October 2025 to six years in prison for cyberstalking, interstate threat to injure reputation, receiving proceeds of extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and wire fraud.
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