A Nigerian national, Olusegun Adejorin, has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the United States after being convicted of using a business email compromise scheme to defraud two charitable organisations of more than $7.5 million.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland disclosed this in a statement published on its website on Friday.
US District Judge Theodore Chuang sentenced 32 year old 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 to obtain information.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation extradited Adejorin from Ghana to the US in August 2024 to face trial over the scheme.
A federal jury found him guilty on all charges in December 2025 after a six day trial.
According to evidence presented during the trial, the attorney’s office said, “Adejorin perpetrated a scheme to defraud Victim 1, a charitable organization located in Maryland, that provided investment services to other organisations.
“Additionally, through the scheme, Adejorin defrauded Victim 2, a charitable organization located in New York, by gaining access to employee email accounts and impersonating employees to induce financial transactions.
As part of the scheme, Adejorin registered spoofed domain names, which he used to impersonate employees of Victim 2 and request withdrawals of the organisation’s funds from Victim 1.
“Adejorin also fraudulently obtained access to email accounts of Victim 1, which he used to send emails falsely confirming the fraudulent requests made in Victim 2’s name.
“He ultimately caused more than $7.5 million of Victim 2’s funds to be sent, pursuant to the fraudulent withdrawal requests, from Victim 1 to bank accounts that were not Victim 2’s bank accounts.”
US Attorney for the District of Maryland, Kelly Hayes, announced the sentence alongside Jimmy Paul, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Baltimore Field Office.
Hayes praised the FBI Baltimore Field Office for its investigative efforts, as well as the FBI Legal Attaché in Accra, Ghana, and several Ghanaian agencies that contributed to the investigation.
The US Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs worked with Ghana’s Office of the Attorney General to facilitate Adejorin’s extradition to the United States.
Assistant US Attorneys Joshua Rosenthal and Darren Gardner prosecuted the case.
