ABUJA – A Nigerian choose on Monday rejected a request by the federal authorities to extradite a suspended police chief to the USA to face prices linked to fraud.
Commissioner Abba Kyari has denied involvement in what a U.S. indictment describes as an elaborate scheme to defraud a Qatari businessperson of greater than $1 million, masterminded by a Nigerian celeb fraudster often known as “Hushpuppi”.
Kyari has denied any wrongdoing.
He's in jail awaiting trial on separate prices of alleged felony conspiracy, official corruption and tampering with reveals after his arrest by the native drug enforcement company in February.
On Monday, Excessive Court docket Choose Inyang Ekwo mentioned Kyari couldn't be extradited due to that trial in Nigeria and handing him over to the USA would breach the nation’s extradition regulation.
“By that reality, it (the extradition request) is incompetent, it's equally bereft of benefit and must be dismissed and I make an order dismissing this case,” Ekwo mentioned in a ruling.
The Minister of Justice and Lawyer Common Abubakar Malami couldn't be reached for remark.
Kyari was one in every of six folks indicted over the alleged fraudulent scheme final yr, in keeping with an announcement from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace, Central District of California.
Nigeria has lengthy struggled to regulate the issue of monetary scams, usually perpetrated by e mail.
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