Eric Patrick
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Ibadan Zonal Directorate, have arrested 18 suspected internet fraudsters in Ogun State.
The suspects were arrested in Prime Garden Hotel, in Atun-iju, Idi-iroko Road following actionable intelligence that exposed their fraudulent internet activities.
The EFCC disclosed this in a statement shared on its Facebook page on Wednesday.
The kingpin among them is alleged to have defrauded his victim of a whopping sum of N200 million.
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Items recovered from him include a red-coloured Lexus IS 250 vehicle, a box of jewelry, foreign and local currencies, a driver’s licence of a female citizen of the United States of America with the name Eva Lovia, and an identification card of a male USA military officer, Julian Miguel Arroyo, among others.
Recovered from others are a vehicle, laptop computers, and incriminating documents.
The Commission disclosed that they will be charged to court once investigations are concluded.
