A Nigerian man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison in the United States for orchestrating a corporate email breach scam that defrauded two charitable organizations out of more than $7.5 million.
Olusegun Adejorin, 32, was sentenced to 96 months in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang after being convicted of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and unauthorized access to a protected computer to steal information.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) extradited Adejorin from Ghana to the United States in August 2024 for trial.
Following a six-day trial in December 2025, a federal jury convicted him of all charges.
Kelly O. Hayes, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, and Jimmy Paul, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Baltimore Field Office, jointly announced the sentencing.
According to evidence revealed during the trial, Adejorin perpetrated the fraud scheme between June and August 2020, targeting two nonprofit organizations, one in Maryland and the other in New York.
The Maryland organization offered investment services to other organizations, but the New York-based charity was the victim of the fraudulent transactions.
According to prosecutors, Adejorin acquired unauthorized access to employees’ email accounts and impersonated them to initiate and approve financial transactions.
As part of the plan, he registered fake domain names that allowed him to mimic workers of the New York nonprofit and seek withdrawals from the organization’s funds from the Maryland charity.
He also got illicit access to Maryland workers’ email accounts and used them to send messages fraudulently verifying withdrawal requests made in the name of the New York nonprofit.
The plan ultimately resulted in the transfer of more than $7.5 million from the Maryland organization to bank accounts unrelated to the intended recipient.
The United States Attorney’s Office praised the FBI Baltimore Field Office for its investigation of the case, as well as Ghanaian authorities such as the FBI Legal Attaché in Accra, the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice, the Economic and Organized Crime Office, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana Police Service – INTERPOL, and the National Intelligence Bureau.
The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs collaborated with Ghanaian authorities to ensure Adejorin’s extradition to the United States.
Assistant United States Attorneys Joshua Rosenthal and Darren Gardner prosecuted the case.
