EFCC Nabs
EFCC Nabs Soldier, 26 Others For Cybercrime
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, has arrested a serving military
personnel, Lance Corporal Ajayi Kayode and 26 others for alleged
internet fraud in the Lekki axis of Lagos State.
Kayode, with service number NAF18/34732, was arrested in his
military attire during an early morning raid at 6B, Fatai Idowu
Arobike, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, on Saturday, August 15, 2020,
following intelligence received from concerned members of the
public about his alleged involvement in criminal activities.
He was arrested alongside Kalu Emmanue; Hassan Sunday;
Odinaka David Okem; Victor Ochiabuito; Christopher Prince; Victor
Ologhu; Alex Aka; Miracle Onyekwere; Habeeb
Ayomide; Olakunle Ajeigbu, Rasheed Olanrewaju and Salam
Hakeem.
Others are: Adeniran Nurudeen; Opeyemi Ojo Chris;
Derrick Moris; Shehu Oluoti; Fuad Akinbayo;
Babatunde Idowu; Uzo Igwe Nathaniel; Debowale Adedoyin;
Shegun Emmanuel; Godswill Maduchem; Samson Kazeem; Oluwatobi
Oluwatoba, Olaitan Ajao and Oyindamola Kareem.
In his statement to the EFCC, Kayode said the “big shot yahoo
yahoo boys” in whose company he was arrested, were his
friends and that they had been teaching him how to make money
through cybercrime.
While the “boys” are members of Organised Cyber Criminal
Syndicate Network, OCCSN, the ladies arrested with them
confirmed the involvement of their “boyfriends” in internet
fraud.
Items recovered from the suspects include diamond jewelry,
exotic cars and expensive phones.
The suspects will be charged to court soon.
Dele Oyewale
Head, Media & Publicity
17/08/2020
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EFCC Warns DNFIs Against Suspicious Transactions
The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
Mohammed Umar on Monday, August, 17, 2020, warned Designated
Non-Financial Institutions, (DNFIs), across the country against
un-reported suspicious transactions to appropriate government
agencies. According to him, stiff penalties
would be meted out to any erring DFNI in this regard.
Umar made the declaration at EFCC Academy, Karu, Abuja, during
the opening ceremony of a four-day training on “Asset Tracing and
Investigation,” organized by the EFCC for its officers, drawn
from its 14 zonal offices.
The training, which is aimed at further equipping the
Commission’s officers with skills on how to trace, identify and
recover proceeds of economic and financial crimes, runs
alongside another course on Microsoft Excel, geared towards
aiding investigative officers in building database, and skill
acquisition on chart linking on recovered assets.
Represented by the Academy’s acting commandant, Itam Nnaghe
Obono, Umar stated that “If any of the defaulting DNFIs is
penalized and used as an example, others will all wake up to
complying with the requirement of the law which mandates them to
report all transactions within a stipulated threshold.”
DFNIs are statutorily required to file reports of suspicious
transactions to the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering(
SCUML), domiciled in the EFCC. Their non-compliance may yield
prosecution of any erring institution or individual.
Dele Oyewale
Head, Media & Publicity
17/08/2020