Suspended Commander of Police, Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari is set to be extradited over the $1.1 million fraud perpetrated by Instagram celebrity, Abass Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi and four others.
The Federal Government has approved the request made by the United States of America (USA) for his extradition.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) disclosed this on Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 when he filed an application before the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja for Kyari’s extradition.
The application marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/249/2022 was filed under the Extradition Act.
According to Malami the application followed a request by the Diplomatic Representative of the U.S. Embassy in Abuja. The request is “for the surrender of Abba Alhaji Kyari, who is a subject in a superseding three counts indictment”
Malami said; “Kyari, if surrendered will not be prejudiced at his trial and will not be punished, detained or restricted in his personal liberty, by reason of his race, nationality or political opinions.”
“Having regard to all the circumstances in which the offence was committed, it will not be unjust or oppressive, or be too severe a punishment, to surrender him.”
“I am also satisfied that Kyari has been accused of the offence for which his surrender is sought. There is no criminal proceeding pending against Kyari in Nigeria for the same offence.”
It would be recalled that in April 2021, a jury filed an indictment against Kyari with the approval of the U.S. District Court and demanded he stand trial for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft.
