The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday said it had in its custody three suspected
Advance Fee fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo Boys arrested in Ilesha, Osun.
The Acting Head, Media and
Publicity of the commission, Mr Tony Orilade, stated this in a statement made
available to newsmen in Abuja.
He said that the suspects
were handed to the commission’s personnel in Ibadan, Oyo state, by
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) for further
investigation.
Orilade said that the
suspects, who were between the ages of 22 years and 29 years were Ebenezer
Oluwafemi, Kolade Sogo and Oluwagbenga Ejikunke.
He said that they were
arrested on Tuesday following series of intelligence gathered by the security
operatives.
“Preliminary investigations
further revealed that the suspects allegedly got involved in different romance
scam posing as female foreigners to fleece unsuspecting victims on the social
media.
“At the point of arrest,
varied fetish materials, two laptops and five different brands of cell phones
were recovered from them.
“Several documents
containing false pretences were also recovered from the suspects,” he said.
The statement said that the
Head, Ibadan Office of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, said the handing over
of the suspects had brought the number of Advance Fee fraudsters arrested in
Ibadan to 40 in a couple of weeks.
“The zone is no longer a
hiding place for the fraudsters.
“Investigation is still
ongoing and the suspects will soon be charged to court,” the statement quoted
him as saying.
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