A 37-year-old Nigerian man identified as Shehu Bello Akharuku has been arrested in Cambodia and detained in Prey Sar prison.

He was arrested on fraud charges and was arrested alongside his 24-year-old Cambodian wife, Kim Sreykouch, allegedly at the request of US Embassy staff.

According to information from the Phnom Penh Court, on the morning of April 3, following a complaint from the US Embassy in Cambodia, the police of the Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime Department of the Ministry of Interior, delivered the Nigerian man and his Cambodian wife to appear before the court.

Mr. Koy Chao, the Phnom Penh court judge then issued a detention order for the two suspects to be held at Prey Sar prison on charges of fraud.