Showing posts with label EFCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EFCC. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Online Dating Scam - UI Graduate Arrested For Murder Of Australian Woman | PICTURED

PM News - Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday said it had arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with the death of an Australian woman, Jette Jacobs, and for defrauding her of $90,000 in an online dating scam.

According to the agency, Orowo Jesse Omokoh was arrested on January 28 in Nigeria, without stating where exactly. The graduate, who attended the University of Ibadan, in the southwest of the country, will be brought before court for extradition proceedings, a spokesman said. Continue....

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

University of Jos Undergraduates and Two Others Arrested for N2.05 Billion Bank Theft


Two bureau de change operators, Salihu Liman Mahmoud and Dan Asabe Ibrahim and two University of Jos undergraduates, Isaiah Friday and Azzaior Samuel were arrested by the The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an alleged N2.05 billion fraud. They were arrested in Lagos and Jos.

The fraudsters specialize in breaking into the computer data base of financial institutions, in order to carry out dry posting of funds. They falsified the bank records and accounts and created unjustified huge opening balances in several accounts across the bank’s branches and subsequently transferred funds from those accounts to several accounts in other banks.