Anti-Graft Agency Hands Over Unlawfully Paid Nigerian Woman To FBI
Afimag.com –
A Convicted Nigerian fugitive, Florence Enwerim Onyegbu, who was declared wanted by United States of America over illegal payment on health care has been handed over to international police on March 23, 2023.
Florence Onyegbu was extradited to USA to defend herself on charges bordering on violation of the U.S. Law involving the offer and payment of illegal remuneration in a health care matter.
Her extradition was harmonized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), after an official request by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), demanding her arrest.
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Further investigations by the anti-graft agency proved that she had changed her name from Florence E. Onyegbu to Janet Boi to mislead the public.
According to a statement by EFCC, she ran out of luck when operatives of the commission descended on her at her residence in the Ojodu area of Lagos on February 21, 2022.
The commission said, “Upon her arrest, a national identity card with the name Janet Boi as well as a Texas driver’s license with the name Florence Enwerim Onyegbu were found on her.
“The Commission, on March 22, 2023, handed over Onyegbu to the FBI, following an extradition order granted by Justice Z.B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on December 2, 2022.
“Onyegbu’s travails began after she was arrested on February 12, 2011 in the U.S. and subsequently sentenced to 46 months imprisonment, following a guilty plea , over the violation of the U.S. Law bordering on the offer and payment of illegal remuneration in a health care matter.
“Although she was ordered to report for service of her sentence on April 4, 2011, she failed to surrender on that date.
“She was further charged with failure to surrender for service of sentence in violation of U.S. Law on March 4, 2013.”