35-year-old man extradited to US for wire fraud

A Nigerian, Lotenna Umeadi, is facing up to 20 years in prison in the United States after pleading guilty to wire fraud.

Umeadi was apprehended in Germany last year and extradited to the US, where he confessed to using a business email compromise to defraud a Sri Lankan organisation of $158,400.

Last week, the US Attorney’s Office disclosed that the Nigerian admitted to soliciting and purchasing a webpage from a computer hacker that allowed…