U.S. authorities have arrested an alleged key figure in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case, a scheme prosecutors say diverted over $250 million in federal child nutrition funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abdikerm Eidleh, accused of playing a key role in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, was arrested in Somalia after more than four years, federal officials said.

He had been indicted in September in 2022 in connection with the Feeding Our Future scam in Minnesota, which prosecutors called the country's largest Covid-era fraud.