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Hoteliers allowing Yahoo Boys to check into their hotels risk jail: EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned that hoteliers who allow Yahoo Boys to check into their facilities risk being prosecuted and jailed.

CHUKWUEMEKA AYOMIDE • JULY 15, 2021
A composite of EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa and Parktonian Hotels used to illustrate the story
A composite of EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa and Parktonian Hotels used to illustrate the story
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned that hoteliers who allow Yahoo Boys to check into their facilities risk being prosecuted and jailed.

In a statement on its official Facebook page, the anti-graft agency said hoteliers could bag a five-year jail term for allowing cybercriminals access to lodging in their hotels.

The warning came after Peoples Gazette’s report exposed how the anti-graft agency violently seized a Lagos hotel access card and broke into guests’ rooms in an overnight raid.

Many guests, including couples, were passing the night at the mid-size hotel when EFCC agents broke in at about 4:00 a.m. Some of them said they were naked under the duvet during the raid, adding that they were not even allowed to dress up before being interrogated by the officers, who said they were on a manhunt for suspected Internet fraudsters.

However, EFCC, in the statement, alleged that what played out during the raid was a regular antic used by Yahoo Boys in buying time to destroy incriminating items in their devices before arrest.

“In the course of the operation, the (EFCC) operatives encountered women in some of the rooms who pleaded nudity to stop them from arresting their targets. This has lately become the antics of cyber fraudsters who procure ladies to plead nudity as a decoy, to allow their consort destroy incriminating items in their devices before arrest,” the EFCC statement said.

Warning hoteliers against allowing cybercriminals into their facilities, the EFCC said hoteliers would be contravening section 3 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act if they continued to allow Yahoo Boys to check into their hotels.

According to EFCC, the act recommends five years’ imprisonment for hoteliers who are accomplices of cybercriminals.

https://gazettengr.com/hoteliers-allowing-yahoo-boys-to-check-into-their-hotels-risk-jail-efcc/

Lalasticlala

Hmm

And those girls following yahoo boys to those hotels should also be jail

Like EFCC like Yahoo boys and polithiefcians.

Na thieves all of them be!

What about rogue politicians..Oh I forgot they are not Yahoo boys. They are Yahoo men.

So they should be doing profiling on every boy that checks in..

After confiscating the money and properties from Yahoo boys, do they give them back to the foreigners that own them..

They are the real thieves.

Jokers, so the hotel will have to check their background, work status, call the company they work because they might use a fake ID card.... hotel should employ FBI

Under which law...

This country full of drama! So,if any of you establish a business, will you be praying not to be patronisd or making no sales? An hotelier is a businessman and ought to make sales and profit from it! Is there any of those guys,that "i am a fraudster" was written on his/her forehead? Eventhough, if they're give form for their details, how do you know, if he puts down right info and our polithiefcians are there, you don't torment their lives. Afterall, if you recover any assets from those guys, it would be aired for some weeks, then we won't hear anything again because you know how you share it among yourselves.