EFCC Cracks Fraud Syndicate, Arrests 4 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
October 25, 2019
The Economicand Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested a syndicate that specialisedin accessing personal data of Nigerians based overseas to defraud their friendsand relations back home.
This iscontained in a statement signed by the commission’s Spokesperson, WilsonUwujaren in Ibadan. He said the EFCC had launched a manhunt on the suspectsafter receiving a petition from one Godwin Ekhaguere.
He said thatEkhaguere, a professor of Mathematics who retired from the University ofIbadan, had in the petition alleged that the gang defrauded him of sums of overfive hundred and sixty five thousand, five hundred naira.
Uwujarensaid that the professor alleged that the suspected fraudsters also made him topart with recharge vouchers worth thirty six thousand naira in the scam.
Thestatement added that four members of the gang have been arrested and in EFCCcustody while others are at large.