A 32-year-old Nigerian national, Olusegun Adejorin, has been sentenced to eight years in a United States federal prison for his role in a business email compromise scheme that defrauded two charitable organisations of more than $7.5 million.
A federal judge in Maryland, Theodore Chuang, sentenced Adejorin to 96 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
He was convicted of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and unauthorised access to a protected computer.
According to U.S. authorities, Adejorin carried out the fraud between June and August 2020, targeting charities based in Maryland and New York.
Prosecutors said he gained unauthorised access to employees' email accounts and impersonated them to initiate and approve financial transactions.
He allegedly created fake domain names resembling those of employees at the New York-based charity and used them to request withdrawals from the organisation's funds held by the Maryland charity.
Adejorin also reportedly gained fraudulent access to email accounts belonging to employees of the Maryland organisation and used them to falsely confirm the withdrawal requests.
The scheme resulted in more than $7.5 million belonging to the New York charity being transferred to bank accounts that were not connected to the intended recipient.
The FBI extradited Adejorin from Ghana to the United States in August 2024 to face trial. Following a six-day trial in December 2025, a federal jury found him guilty on all charges.
U.S. authorities credited the FBI's Baltimore Field Office and several Ghanaian agencies with assisting in the investigation and securing his extradition.
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs also worked with Ghanaian authorities during the extradition process.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joshua Rosenthal and Darren Gardner prosecuted the case.
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