The target was one Rasaq
Balogun, a suspected internet fraud kingpin, whose illicit activities dominated
intelligence gathered from the recently arrested ‘police spies’ during a raid
on their Abeokuta base.
Operatives of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Wednesday raided
a Lagos hotel believed to be a hideout for internet fraudsters and arrested
suspected internet fraud kingpin and 26 others.
According to findings,
Balogun harbours an army of young men recruited to carry out financial frauds
through the use of the internet.
Other suspected fraudsters
were equally arrested at his Beckley Estate residence, also in Lagos State.
The suspected kingpin with
his vehicles
The raid on his hotel,
Modzak Hotel located at Abule-Egba, Lagos State, sufficiently gave credence to
the suspicion as a retinue of young men were caught haboured in his hotel with
no specific mission.
The suspected kingpin and
26 other young men ranging between the ages of 18 and 35 years arrested were
brought to the Commission’s Ibadan zonal office for further interrogation.
Officer of the anti-graft
agency also recovered three vehicles, fetish item, laptops, mobile phones and
documents suspected to contain fraudulent data from the suspect.
Those indicted, the EFCC,
said, would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.
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