The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP) in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS) and other stakeholders have successfully extradited one of Italy’s most-wanted criminals, Charity Omoruyi, alias ‘Jeff Joy’. 

It would be recalled that in a judgement delivered by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Ancoma in June 2012, Omoruyi was convicted in absentia for the crimes of human trafficking, exploitation for prostitution, slavery, and abetting of unlawful migration; she was sentenced to 13-years imprisonment.

According to a statement by the NAPTIP, Press Officer, Vincent Adekoye Omoruyi, a 54-year-old Nigerian from Ego LGA in Edo State, fled to Nigeria when a warrant for her arrest was issued and she was put on INTERPOL Red Notice.

Following the receipt of a formal request for extradition of Omoruyi in May 2022, by the Italian authorities, in June 2022 with the assistance of the DSS, Omoruyi was tracked and arrested in Benin City, Edo State.