Nigerian Man Extradited To US Over $100m Tax Fraud, Identity Theft

A 43-year-old Nigerian, Akinade Adedeji Raheem, has been extradited from the Republic of Benin to the United States to face federal charges over an alleged $100 million tax refund fraud scheme involving stolen identities.
Raheem was arraigned on Monday and remanded into the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending further court proceedings.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia disclosed this in a statement published on its official website on Tuesday.
According to the statement, Raheem allegedly conspired with others to file more than 300 fraudulent tax returns between 2018 and 2023, seeking over $100 million in refunds from the Int...