Forty-seven year-old
Ojemolon confessed that he gathered one Ehimen Peter, aka Senator, a Libya
returnee, had become suddenly rich and he decided to seek ways of defrauding
him.
The Benin
Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on
Wednesday, arrested one Anthony Ojemolon for attempting to obtain money by
false pretences and impersonating officials of the Commission.
This was
contained in a press statement released by Dele Oyewale, the Head, Media &
Publicity, EFCC.
“I was in my village where I met some people
discussing Senator that he has hammered, I asked for his mobile number and
decided to call him. I wanted to take my
share. I told him to bring N1.5million to settle people in EFCC who are looking
for him and N150,000 for myself,” Ojemolon said.
The potential
victim, Peter, said that when he received the call, he was shocked as he
claimed he didn’t have such money. According to him, it was when Ojemolon began
to put pressure on him to bring the money that he confided in his elder brother
who advised him to petition the EFCC.
Upon
receiving the petition, the Commission advised Peter to play along which
consequently led to the arrest of Ojemolon by operatives of the Commission at
the point where he wanted to collect the money from Peter.
Ojemolon has
made useful statements and will be arraigned in court soon.
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