• Suspect plants stories to get money –Police

• Female lawyer loses job, marriage over ‘nude’ pictures

Juliana Francis

Detectives attached to the police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, have arrested a 23-year-old website owner, Babatunde Oyebode, for attempting to defraud oil magnate, Sir Femi Otedola and the Group Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc, Mr. Wale Tinubu.

According to the police, the suspect, Oyebode, a school certificate holder and alleged owner of a website naijagistlife.com, living at Festac Town, Lagos, was arrested after SFU received a series of petitions. One of the petitioners is Mr. Dapo Balogun, who said Oyebode posted on naijagistlife.com, a story alleging that the petitioner worked with former Petroleum Minister, Deziani Allison-Maduekwe, and that throughout that working period, he fraudulently acquired huge sums of money.

Balogun told the police he received an email from the suspect, demanding millions of naira, if he wanted him to pull down the story. Balogun, who said the story by the website alleged that he looted $100 million, said it also made him a prime target for kidnappers.

He stressed that several attempts had been made to abduct him. Although the suspect had a fraud case pending in court, it didn’t stop him from continuing in his fraudulent ways. In May, Oyebode was said to have posted a defamatory story on Tinubu.

He was arrested but released after he allegedly promised to pull down the story. But according to the police, the suspect tried the second time to blackmail the Oando boss. Although he claimed not to be the owner of the website, police said the money paid by some victims was traced to his account. Stating his own side of the story, Oyebode said he was framed by the owners of the website. He said that he designed the website for an unknown client, whom he only had dealings with via email.

He added: “I designed websites for people and after designing the site, I included my contacts on the website to attract other customers. I was arrested through my contact displayed on naijagistlive.com.”

The police said Oyebode used to send threat messages to high profile businessmen and women, demanding undisclosed sums of money or he would run damaging stories on them. Sometimes, he would demand money to pull down a damaging and fabricated story. Police added that Oyebode posted superimposed nude pictures of a female lawyer, Ivie Omoregia, and alleged that she was having an affair with her boss and other clients.

The ruse cost the woman her marriage and job. Oyebode allegedly said he would pull down the story and pictures only after the lawyer paid N3.5 million, but she refused, saying that the damaged had already been done.

The SFU Public Relations Officer (PRO), an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr. Lawal Audu, said: “The suspect demanded N3.5 million from the lawyer, in order to enable him pull down the provocative pictures from the site. The victim told the suspect she had no such amount of money in her account. She told police that those pictures posted on the website cost her, her job, marriage and social life.

The female lawyer is among the three different persons who wrote a petition to SFU.” Audu said the suspect had three different cases pending before the police. The PRO said that the first and second case had to do with threat to life and fraud.

Audu explained that on October 19, Balogun reported a case of extortion, blackmail and threat to life to SFU against Oyebode. The second petitioner is Femi Otedola, who told the police that Oyebode also posted an annoying story on the same naijagistlife.com, alleging that he had been having sex with different girls in his office. In his petition to the SFU, Otedola said the story portrayed him as an irresponsible man who cheats on his wife.

He added that other parts of the story talking about his wealth, led to threat to his life by kidnappers. The police also said preliminary investigations had revealed that the suspect, in conjunction with others, were in the business of using Photoshop, an editing tool, to superimpose nude pictures of unidentified persons with high profile persons in the society.

Audu said: “It was on the strength of the petition that operatives of the unit swung into action and arrested the suspect. The suspect has another fraud case pending at the Federal High Court.”

https://newtelegraphonline.com/website-owner-blackmails-otedola-tinubu/

Pic: Babatunde Oyebode,

Pic credit: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/23-yr-old-man-blackmailed-otedola-tinubu-others-online-stories/

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Bad hustler.

Just take a good look at the face of the bastard.

Its a pity that the female lawyer lost her job and marriage.

the female lawyer
the guy dey use gra gra pursue money

how is that old man 23years?