A founded guilty Nigerian fugitive, Florence Enwerem Onyegbu, was on Thursday, extradited to the United States of America, USA, where she is wished to solution to criminal charges verging on infraction of the U.S. Law including the deal and payment of prohibited reimbursement in a healthcare matter.
Her extradition was collaborated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, following a demand by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, looking for support for her apprehension.
This was divulged in a declaration by EFCC representative Wilson Uwujaren.
According to the declaration, examinations by the EFCC exposed that she had actually altered her name from Florence Onyegbu to Janet Boi in an effort to stay covert.
Onyegbu, nevertheless, lacked luck when operatives of the EFCC dove on her at her home in the Ojodu location of Lagos on February 21, 2022.
Upon her arrest, a nationwide identity card with the name Janet Boi, along with a Texas motorist’s license with the name Florence Onyegbu, were discovered on her.
The EFCC handed over Onyegbu to the FBI following an extradition order given by Justice Z.B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court being in Abuja on December 2, 2022.
