HYDERABAD: Prohibition and excise sleuths arrested a Nigerian drug peddler and seized 178 grams of cocaine from him. The accused was arrested by the excise team a few months ago in another cocaine peddling case.



Acting on specific information, a Task Force team arrested Ngwuchukwu Godwin Ifeanyi (32) near Huda Park in Vanasthalipuram in the early hours of Saturday.

The team seized 24 grams of cocaine in his possession and subsequently the team raided his rented house at LIG colony in Vanasthalipuram.

“From his house, we seized 154 grams of cocaine,” excise superintendent K Pradeep Rao said. “About five months ago, he was arrested by Dhoolpet excise team for peddling in cocaine. Currently, he is out on bail in that case," Rap said.
The accused said that he has been selling each gram of cocaine for ₹7,500 to ₹10,000.

During the interrogation, the accused confessed to have brought the cocaine from a Bengaluru-based supplier. Godwin picked up the contraband from the supplier and reached Hyderabad in a private bus. As he was waiting to meet a prospective customer, the excise team swooped in on him.

Excise officials said that Godwin came to India in 2015 on a student visa and joined a pharmacy college in AP’s Kakinada. After a few years, he shifted to Hyderabad and started indulging in narcotics peddling.

A cellphone and ₹38,000 cash were also recovered from the accused.

The Cyber Crime Wing of Greater Chennai Police in India has arrested two Nigerians for virtually robbing Rs 2.5 crore from a branch of the Tamil Nadu State Apex Cooperative Bank

The suspects identified as 40-year-old Augustine, a software engineer and Ekene Godwin,37, were arrested from Uttam Nagar, Delhi when one of them went to an ATM to withdraw money, police said in a statement on Friday, January 13, 2023.

The arrest was made on January 8, by a special team led by inspector T Vinoth Kumar of the cybercrime wing and would be brought to Chennai soon.

The duo entered India two years ago on a business visa. Since August 2022, they have been sending phishing emails to cooperative banks across the country and allegedly managed to steal from 10 different banks.

According to Times of India, the duo gained access to the keyboard usage of the bank and monitored the texts and swindled ?2.5 crore.
While the cybercrime personnel managed to retrieve Rs 1.5 crore immediately after the successful phishing bid, the accused had managed to transfer the remaining sum.

The police said last November, a representative from the bank lodged a complaint alleging that some people had stolen ?2.61 crore from its account and security protocols had been compromised. The officers of Cyber Crime Wing registered a case and took up investigation.

Explaining the duo's modus operandi, police said that Augustine sent a phishing mail to the bank officials on November 18.

“As the name suggests, Keylogger is used to gain access to a keyboard. When a bank staff clicked on the phishing e-mail, the embedded software got installed. The duo monitored the system for four months before transferring the money," the officer said.

Soon after they clicked on the link, the Key Logger app, which was embedded within the mail, got downloaded into their computers. The tool entered the banking system without alerting the officials.

This gave Augustine and Godwin access to three bank accounts from which a sum of Rs 2.5 crore was stolen over 32 transactions. By the time the cooperative bank understood what was happening and alerted the cops, the foreign nationals managed to transfer around Rs 1 crore to the Zenith Bank and Bank of Nigeria. The remaining sum was retrieved by the police team, the news report said.

The Africans were held by the police team from Delhi's Uttam Nagar area following an investigation focusing on the Nigerian bank accounts.

Following the arrest, it was learnt that they used the robbed money to make cryptocurrency investments.

The Tamil Nadu cybercrime unit also learnt that they had successfully infiltrated a bank server in Gujarat as well. The cops have got in touch with their counterparts in the northern state.

Speaking to journalists, Vinoth Kumar said, “As the name suggests, Keylogger is used to gain access to a keyboard. When a bank staff clicked on the phishing e-mail, the embedded software got installed. The duo monitored the system for four months before transferring the money,"
To avoid virus attacks, computers with a core banking system (CBS) usually do not have internet. However, the duo managed to find one CBS unit that had an internet connection and sent a phishing mail to the state cooperative bank in Mannady.

"While all the IP addresses were cloned or made to bounce off, we were able to trace one id to Delhi. A team was sent and they stayed put in Uttam Nagar,” said the officer.

The Nigerians had transferred almost all the swindled money to a Nigerian bank. They had kept only a minimum amount to pay for rent, food and other expenses.

"They transferred the money to at least 32 different bank accounts. We tracked some of those accounts and monitored them. When the accused withdrew money from ATMs, we identified them through the CCTV footage,” said Vinoth Kumar.

LegendHero:
I never knew I will see a day where Borno will be more peaceful than Anambra.

Na almost everyday dem dey kill people for the SE now.

Yet the foolish media keep calling them unknown gunmen. Well na them know, RIP to the dead.

lexy2014:


But you avoided this thread. Why?

https://www.nairaland.com/7521171/indian-police-give-details-arrest

A 28-year-old Nigerian national was arrested for allegedly smuggling 160grams of heroin, Gurugram, India, police said on Tuesday, October 4.

The suspect was arrested on Monday night, October 3, 2022, while on his way to hand over the contraband to a person at a liquor shop near Kherki Daula toll plaza.

Preet Pal Sangwan, assistant commissioner of police (crime), said a crime branch team headed by sub-inspector Amit Kumar had received intelligence input about a foreign national involved in smuggling contraband after which the suspect, identified as 'Fernando Benz', was apprehended.

"Benz was allegedly involved in smuggling drugs in Gurugram from Delhi. He was staying in Dwarka," ACP Sangwan said.


Police said Benz arrived in India from Nigeria on a medical visa in August last year and stays in Delhi’s Dwarka area.



“He was staying in Delhi illegally even after the expiry of the visa period. He has been selling heroin in Delhi and Gurugram for the last six months,"

"He had finalised a deal to buy heroin from a man. When he reached the toll plaza by cab, the crime unit team nabbed him and recovered 160 gm of heroin from his possession," Sangwan added.


An FIR under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and the Foreigners Act was registered against Benz at Kherki Daula police station on Monday night, police added.

RuggedBiafran:
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gentiles:

Are you guys not tired of disgracing your tribe? Yesterday it was in ibeno, today it is in Ede. Why are Yorubas of this generation so slow and gullible. Why are you the only ones fighting other ethnic tribes?