Breaking. US COURT ORDERS EXTRADITION OF NDC's SEDINAM TAMAKLOE TO GHANA🇬🇭.

 Magistrate judge in the United States of America (USA), Daniel J. Albregts of the District of Nevada, has ordered the extradition of Ms. Christine Sedina Tamakloe, former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC), and member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to Ghana to serve her pending 10-year sentence.

In his decision delivered on 9 April 2026 in the case entitled United States of America (plaintiff) vrs Sedina Christine Tamakloe (defendant), (Case No. 2:25 mj-00861-DJA-1, Judge Albregts held that the evidence presented before his court is sufficient to warrant an order for the extradition of the defendant (Christine Sedina Tamakloe).

“Therefore, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. $ 3184, the above findings, the Court certifies the extradition of Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu aka Sedina Sharon Christine Acolaste to Ghana on the 25 counts of Stealing in violation of $ 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29);

“9 counts of Conspiracy to Steal in violation of $$ 23(1) and 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); 20 counts of Willfully Causing Financial Loss to the State in violation of $ 179A(3)(a) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); 11 counts of Conspiracy to Willfully Cause Financial Loss to the State in violation of $$ 23(1) and 179A(3)(a) of the Criminak Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29);

“3 counts of Causing Loss to Public Property in violation of $ 2 of the Public Property Protection Act, 1977 (SMCD 140); and 4 counts of Money Laundering in D violation of $ 1(1)(c) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008 (Act 749) and commits Attionu to the custody of the United States Marshal pending further decision on extradition and surrender by the Secretary of State pursuant to 18 U.S.C. $ 3186,” the order of Judge Albregts read in part.

Previous detention

In a statement dated Thursday 15 January 2026 and signed by Victor Emmanuel Smith, Ghana’s ambassador to the US, Ghana’s diplomatic mission in Washington, DC announced that Ms Tamakloe Attionu had been detained at the Nevada Detention Centre at the following address: 2190 East Mesquite Avenue, Pahrump, Nevada.

“My information is that she was detained by US Marshals on 6 January and has since been kept at the detention center. I am reliably informed that, acting on an extradition request sent to the US authorities sometime in July 2024, US Marshals arrested Mrs Tamakloe-Attionu and placed her in detention to await her day in court,” Ambassador Victor Smith’s statement said.