Two persons, Adetokunbo Adejayan and Juliet Adebisi, have been arrested by the police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos, for pretending to be married in order to secure a United States visa.

The crime was said to have been brought to the notice of the SFU through a petition by the Assistant Regional Security Officer, United States Consulate General.

Police investigations revealed that Adejayan and Adebisi were not husband and wife as claimed.

It was discovered that the false union was arranged by one Segun and his syndicate, which specialise in teaming up US visa lottery winners with non-winners for onward “smuggling” to the US.

A statement by the SFU Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Isintume-Agu, said, “Their method is to merge a visa lottery winner with a non-winner and package both to US.

“In this case, the sum of N1.5m was paid by Adebisi and she was purportedly joined in matrimony with Adejayan, who genuinely won an American Visa lottery. Both suspects have made confessional statements that they are not legally married.”

Adeyanju, 35, who teaches in a secondary school in Mafoluku, Oshodi, was said to have won the lottery in May 2012.

His statement to the Police read in part, “It was my brother’s friend who played the lottery for me and he was the same person who called to tell me that I had won. He advised me to get a ‘wife’ before coming to the US. He then introduced me to Segun, assuring me that he (Segun) would help.

“It was Segun that brought Adebisi for the arranged marriage and subsequent interview and visa.”

Adebisi paid N1m to Segun in June 2012 to process her visa and another N500,000 for passports, medicals and training.

The Commissioner of Police in charge of SFU, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, said, “It was Segun who booked the appointment for the suspects at the embassy as husband and wife. The fake marriage was arranged last year.

“Investigation is ongoing and effort is on top gear to arrest Segun and his cohorts. The arrested suspects will be charged to court soon.”


Source..http://www.informationng.com/2013/07/visa-lottery-winner-other-arrested-over-scam-marriage.html

American dream has turned to nightmare

It is always good to wait for one appropriate tym...


AGENTSSSSSSSSSS* b warned

justwise: American dream has turned to nightmare

Justwise, do you have a button for deregistering? I would like to know so that when it is time to move on I will delete two accounts:ferdimako and ferdiii or at most call on you to.

ferdiii:

Justwise, do you have a button for deregistering? I would like to know so that when it is time to move on I will delete two accounts:ferdimako and ferdiii or at most call on you to.

There is no such button, if you have had enough of nairaland then you leave quietly the way you came

justwise:

There is no such button, if you have had enough of nairaland then you leave quietly the way you came

Okay...still have not seen any hidden comments on Igbo men being deported or Yoruba men being forced on them as their leader at Oladipo...kind of selective abortion here.

ferdiii:

Okay...still have not seen any hidden comments on Igbo men being deported or Yoruba men being forced on them as their leader at Oladipo...kind of selective abortion here.

I have a burning hatred for tribal comments, you can say it and get away with it in other sections but not here.

By the way you are not suppose to be commenting because you are banned, you service it no matter the ID.

wahala dey

Naija 4 u, all Scams!!!

lobatan!

***beating talking drum***
"ko gba gira gira, kogba gira gira,
ohun ti oluwa yio se funmi mi
ko gba giragira"

Seun seun seun Can't u make dis nairaland to b like whatsapp so I can b receiving incoming update automatically.

1.5 million for fake arrangement how much is the real thing pls

Na the guy I sorry for

Na wah! 1.5 million!

What is really bad in Naija that warrants all these.


The grass is not always green on the other side

JAWON OYA LETS GO THERE[color=#770077][/color] THYEN RUN LEAVE US BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. THE GUY LOOK SOME HOW SUFFERING BEFORE THE ARREST. AH THAT MAMA DON GET YOU

This are the kind of people that give our country bad image and causes a lot of issues for other Nigerians in the diaspora

Seun who are the two kids up there derailing.

@ topic. See as Americana teacher go soon land in oshodi prison. At times when we pray for God to guard us, some fink it's a joke. Look at how arrangee married come spoil my brother jolly. Kpele bros

you've got to give it to them for trying lol

I knew quite a number doing this stuff some years ago.It's really not worth it.Believe in your dreams and have an unwavering trust in God to take you places.

To him that believeth shall nothing be impossible!

FP tins

thats how the guy lost the visa lottery sha

So no Yankie for Adeyanju again. Poor guy

desperate people, so u prefer to spend #1.5million just to be US citizen? I think our people need orientation. some1 with slave mentality in Nigeria will always be a slave no matter wia he/she goes...,

k10: thats how the guy lost the visa lottery sha

His chances of entering Yankee has been tarnished for life...

SimonAndal:
Y U Do Dis, Mr? Y U Be Complete Olodo?

4d love of kpekus and money many shall fall.

Which one be legally married again come take spoil my butter, if I be the guy na to just start to first dey bleep the girl first first to take ease tension before I go know what next to do


Btw, marriage no dey hard, dem fit conduct this tin this early mornin, abeg make dem free dem jare

What a pity. The babe Fresh o.

...Two of my cousins did this in 2007 that worked,my childhood pal also succeeded too in 2009 with a lady 5years older than him(The lady was the one who won the lottery)!So noting new about this...