A 32-year-old Nigerian national, Olusegun Adejorin, has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the United States for defrauding two charitable organisations of more than $7.5 million through a business email compromise scheme.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced the sentence in a statement published on its official website on Friday.

US District Judge Theodore Chuang handed Adejorin a 96-month prison term, followed by three years of supervised release, after he was convicted of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and unauthorised access to a protected computer to obtain information.

According to the authorities, Adejorin was extradited from Ghana to the United States in August 2024 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to face prosecution.

A federal jury found him guilty of all the charges in December 2025 after a six-day trial.
Prosecutors said Adejorin targeted two charitable organisations, one based in Maryland and the other in New York, as part of an elaborate scheme to divert funds.

Evidence presented in court showed that he allegedly gained unauthorised access to employees’ email accounts and impersonated staff members to initiate and validate fraudulent financial transactions.

Investigators said he also created fake internet domains resembling those belonging to employees of the New York-based organisation. The spoofed domains were allegedly used to send fraudulent requests for withdrawals of the organisation’s funds held by the Maryland charity.

Adejorin subsequently gained access to email accounts belonging to the Maryland organisation and allegedly used them to falsely confirm the withdrawal requests made in the name of the New York charity.

The scheme ultimately resulted in more than $7.5 million being transferred from the Maryland organisation to bank accounts controlled by neither of the legitimate beneficiaries, prosecutors said.

US Attorney for the District of Maryland Kelly Hayes announced the sentence alongside FBI Baltimore Field Office Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul.

Hayes commended investigators in the FBI Baltimore Field Office, as well as the FBI Legal Attaché in Accra and Ghanaian authorities who assisted with the investigation and extradition process.

The US Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs also worked with Ghana’s Office of the Attorney-General to facilitate Adejorin’s extradition to the United States.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant US Attorneys Joshua Rosenthal and Darren Gardner.