NDLEA arrests billionaire drug baron in Switzerland

Operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, successful adjacent coordination with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, Lagos Country Office, and instrumentality enforcement partners from Switzerland, France, and Greece, person successfully dismantled a transnational transgression enactment progressive successful cause wealth laundering operations moving into hundreds of billions of naira crossed Europe and Nigeria.

The multi-country probe into the cause wealth laundering operations culminated successful the simultaneous apprehension of a billionaire cause baron, Amadi Simon, successful Switzerland and his co-conspirators – 34-year-old Jecinta Amara Ikechi, successful Anambra State, and 28-year-old Blessing Ngozi Amadi successful Agbor, Delta State – connected Tuesday 28th April 2026.

This was announced successful a connection connected Thursday by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.

Babafemi disclosed that this followed months of quality and investigations crossed aggregate jurisdictions linking Amadi to the laundering of hundreds of billions of Naira successful proceeds of cause and fiscal crimes.

In summation to the apprehension of the suspects, the NDLEA, successful collaboration with its planetary instrumentality enforcement partners, has besides traced multi-billion assets linked to Amadi’s transnational transgression web successful Niger...