diff --git a/SessionMessagingKit/Sending & Receiving/MessageReceiver+Handling.swift b/SessionMessagingKit/Sending & Receiving/MessageReceiver+Handling.swift
index 72a4b3a7e..ff3cb175f 100644
--- a/SessionMessagingKit/Sending & Receiving/MessageReceiver+Handling.swift	
+++ b/SessionMessagingKit/Sending & Receiving/MessageReceiver+Handling.swift	
@@ -286,6 +286,10 @@ extension MessageReceiver {
         guard Set(group.groupMemberIds).contains(message.sender!) else {
             return SNLog("Ignoring closed group update message from non-member.")
         }
+        // Check that the admin wasn't removed
+        guard members.contains(group.groupAdminIds.first!) else {
+            return SNLog("Ignoring invalid closed group update message.")
+        }
         // Remove the group from the user's set of public keys to poll for if the current user was removed
         let userPublicKey = getUserHexEncodedPublicKey()
         let wasCurrentUserRemoved = !members.contains(userPublicKey)