Obinwanne Okeke, the 32-year-old Nigerian arrested in the United States last August, has argued that American authorities lacked jurisdiction to charge him for fraud, court documents show.
Mr Okeke, through his lawyers, said in a preliminary objection filed in the U.S. court that he did not commit the offence he was being accused of in America, and no American companies or individuals were swindled at the material time of his indictment.
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