Computer-Related Frauds: We Recovered $169,850, N92m Through EFCC-FBI Collaboration – Magu - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 11, 2019
The acting Chairman of the Economic and FinancialCrimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has said that the collaborativeoperations between the Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI,tagged “Operation Rewired” have led to the recovery of the sums of 169,850dollars as well as the sum of 92 million naira from suspected perpetrators ofcomputer-related frauds.
Magu said the operations had resulted in the arrestof 167 Nigerians for alleged computer-related frauds and recovery of fourexotic cars, plots of land in choice areas in Lagos and a property in Abuja.
Speaking at a joint FBI/EFCC media briefing inLagos, September 10th, 2019, Magu, who spoke through Mohammed Umar Abba,Director of Operations, EFCC, said “being an international model operationtargeted at the varied forms of computer-related frauds, the EFCC/FBIcollaborative operations spanning three weeks was designed to intercept andinterrupt the global network of the internet fraudsters.
However, before now, as you are all aware, we hadrelentlessly launched intensive investigative actions against the infamousYahoo yahoo boys culminating into various strategic raids, onslaught oncriminals’ hideouts, prosecutions and convictions”.