Today, a Federal High Court in Abuja will issue its ruling in a case brought by the federal government to have suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP Abba Kyari extradited to the US.
In order to facilitate Kyari’s extradition to the United States of America to respond to fraud claims there, the Federal Government’s Attorney General of the Federation, or AGF, filed the extradition charges against him.
According to information obtained by Anaedoonline.ng, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the court’s Abuja division will deliver the decision that will decide the future of the temporarily suspended Police Chief.
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Our correspondent specifically spotted the notice of judgment in the case, which states that it will be given this morning and that the Federal Government and Abba Kyari’s legal team have been served with notice.
The American government requested Kyari’s extradition so he could give his own account of a $1.1 million wire fraud that an internet fraudster named Abass Ramon, aka Hushpuppi, had claimed Kyari was involved in.
The extradition charges were filed by the AGF, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and are identified as FHC/ABJ/CS/249/2022.
With the permission of the US District Court, a jury in America indicted Kyari in April 2021 and asked that he stand trial for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and identity theft.
The American embassy subsequently requested Kyari’s extradition, stating that “on April 29, 2021, based on the indictment filed by the Grand Jury and with the approval of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, a Deputy Clerk of the court issued a warrant of arrest for Kyari.”
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“Kyari is the subject of an indictment in case number 2:21-cr-00203 (also referred to as 2:21-mj-00760 and 2:21-cr-00203-rgk), filed April 29, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.”
When laying the charges, Malami had stated that the request for Kyari’s surrender was made in good faith and the interest of justice rather than to punish or persecute him because of his race, religion, nationality, or political ideas.
Kyari was also detained by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on February 12 as part of an inquiry into claims of hard drug trafficking. He was later charged in court after being indicted.
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