Six suspects were arrested in the hotel while they were busy swallowing the large sums of money with the intention of exporting $156,000 to Brazil.
Speaking on the arrest, the
chairman of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, said the six suspected members of the group,
including a Bureau de Change operator, had been apprehended in connection with
swallowing $156,000.
Alhaji Giade further
pointed out that the agency would track down suspected drug traffickers and
currency launderers in a bid to rid the society of crimes.
According to him, operators
of bureau de change who fail to work within the confines of the law
establishing them shall be severely sanctioned.
Meanwhile, NDLEA Commander,
Joint Task Force, JTF, Mr. Adeniyi Muyiwa, gave the names of the suspects as
Nwokenta Kingsley, 37, a Bureau de change operator, also known as Buchito; Onwuasoanya Augustine Chukwuemeka, 54, who
lives in Brazil and Christian Okoli Ifor, 35, based in Brazil.
Others are Nwokenta
Emmanuel Maduakolam, 31; Ezenwa Ikenna, 28, a specialist in wrapping; and
Ezenwa Uzoma, a 33-year-old hotel manager.
He stressed that an interim
investigation report by the anti-narcotics agency revealed that Mr. Nwokenta
Kingsley, a.k.a Buchito was the brain behind the suspected criminal act.
According to Mr. Muyiwa, Mr.
Kingsley allegedly supplied $120,000 to be swallowed and illicitly exported to
Brazil.
He said: “Onwuasoanya Augustine Chukwuemeka swallowed
74 wraps of dollars amounting to one hundred and eleven thousand ($111,000).
Christian Okoli Ifor who resides in Brazil had forty-five thousand dollars
which he wanted to swallow. Nwokenta Emmanuel who is the manager of Amazon
Bureau de Change played a supportive role in the alleged crime. Ezenwa Ikenna
was hired to wrap the money.
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