Senator Buruji Kashamu loses again in Chicago court…faces 20 years in U.S prison
Senator Buruji Kashamu’s latest efforts to defeat the U.S. government’s attempts to bring him from Lagos to face justice in a Chicago courtroom were defeated late Monday, when the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to toss out his lawsuit against the American government.
Kashamu, indicted in a heroin case alongside money launderer turned “Orange Is the New Black” writer Piper Kerman in 1998, sued the Department of Justice in 2015. He hoped to convince a judge to stop U.S. law enforcement from what he alleged was an imminent plan to team up with his political rivals and “abduct” him in Nigeria.
Per Second News gathered that U.S Drug Enforcement Administration agents, teamed uo with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to lay siege to his Lagos home for six days in a 2015 abduction attempt, before a court ordered them to leave.
U.S. Appellate Court Judge Richard Posner on Monday wrote that nothing in the law prevents U.S. agents from “being present when foreign officers are effecting an arrest or from assisting foreign officers who are effecting an arrest.”
Kashamu, who is the basis for the character Kubra Balik in the Netflix show, has always insisted that U.S. prosecutors confused him with his dead brother. He previously beat attempts to extradite him from Britain.
The Ogun state senator faces up to 20 years in U.S prison.
