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FBI List: Nigeria may extradite accused persons
7 years agoFederal agents hold a detainee, center, at a downtown Los Angeles parking lot after predawn raids that saw dozens of people arrested in the L.A. area Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. U.S. authorities have unsealed a 252-count federal grand jury indictment charging 80 people with participating in a conspiracy to steal millions of dollars through a range of fraud schemes and laundering the funds through a Los Angeles-based network. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Thursday most of the defendants are Nigerian nationals. REED SAXON/AP
Nigerian Government has reacted to the allegations by US authorities against 80 people, most of them Nigerians, in a wide-ranging fraud and money laundering operation.