Two Nigerian undergraduates and six others
were on Friday arrested by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission for
internet fraud. They were all picked up from
their operational base at the highbrow 1004
Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.
One of the undergraduates, Hope Olusegun, a 25
year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State, who
claimed to be a student of Computer Science at the
Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia,
was arrested by operatives of EFCC over allegations
of fraud and internet scam.
The arrest of the scammers followed a petition to
the EFCC over the nefarious activities of Olusegun
and his accomplices who have been using the 1004
base to engage in fraudulent activities of obtaining
money by false pretences and forgery online.
The EFCC said yesterday that following the
petition, its operatives swooped on Olusegun’s
apartment and discovered various items which
were being used for the fraud.
The recovered items included laptops, iPad phones,
travelling documents, cheque books, flash drives,
Internet modem, and three exotic cars – a
Mercedes Benz Jeep, One 4-Matic Mercedes Benz
Car and a Range Rover Sport SUV.
Olusegun however denied ownership of the exotic
cars when confronted by security operatives,
claiming that they belonged to his uncle who lives
in the United Kingdom.
Operatives of the EFCC also downloaded over 80
implicating documents from the laptops recovered
from Olusegun. However, the Commission is
making efforts to track down other members of
Olusegun’s syndicate who are currently at large.
Tunde Wasiu Sodiq, another undergraduate and
member of another internet fraud syndicate with
close affinity with Olusegun’s gang was also
arrested by the EFCC at the Estate.