Operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Ikoyi, Lagos
have arrested a 24-year-old man who posed as a lady to
defraud a United States of America couple of $42,497,
purportedly for the purchase of a property in Lagos.
The suspect, identified as Olafinraye Adedamola, admitted
the offence while being paraded yesterday [Nov. 21].
He was said to have connived with a Malaysian lady to
defraud the couple. The Malaysian lady, according to him,
was his Facebook friend, adding that he had intended to
use the money to further his studies in a tertiary
institution.
Explaining how the artisan who trained in aluminum
works was arrested, spokesperson for the unit, Ngozi
Isintume-Agu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said:
An intelligence report dated September 24, 2013 from
Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), Abuja
addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud
Unit (SFU) alleged that one Olafinraye Adedamola opened
a USD Domiciliary Account No. 273/6980678251/0 with
the Demurin, Ketu, Lagos Branch of Sterling Bank Plc
and through suspicious circumstances, cumulative sum
of USD 42,497 was paid into the account by
unsuspecting victims abroad between August 13, 2013
and September 16, 2013.
The suspected illicit inflows were followed by immediate
cash withdrawals by the suspect who appeared to have
no known affiliation with the international depositors.
SFU operatives swung into action and investigation
carried out on the domiciliary account revealed that
$18,129.92 is still left in the account and a lien was
immediately placed on the account.
The suspect was traced to his house at 7, Agidi Road,
Oshogun, Alapere, Ketu, Lagos but he evaded police
arrest and his father, a proprietor of a moribund driving
school, feigned ignorance of his son’s whereabouts.
However, the fleeing suspect was later apprehended by
the Police.
Olafinraye Adedamola who posed as a lady named Janet
was born in 1989 in Kosofe LGA Ketu, Lagos. He claimed
he met a Nigerian at a conference in Malaysia who
introduced him to the victim who requested that he
purchased property for him in Nigeria which was the basis
for the disbursement of the money into his account and
that he had already bought a building at Ogba, Ikeja for
N4 million and that the documents were with him.”
The suspect, according to Isintume-Agu, will be charged
to court.
Just saying if SFU can trace $42,000 dollars why cant they trace the huge
Amounts of people stolen by politicians daily ???
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