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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office on Friday, arrested 42 youngsters for alleged involvement in internet-related fraud.
The suspects, whose ages range between 18 and 33 years, were apprehended at different locations in Ilaro, Ogun State, following actionable intelligence earlier received on their alleged illegal activities

The suspects are: Peter Fasuhan, Kareem Oladimeji, Adeleke Sodiq, Akinlolu Quadri, Popoola Lukeman, Faniyi Jamiu, Joseph Elijah, Idowu Afolabi, Laleye Olaoluwa, Olabode Olasunkanmi, Shoyola Joseph, Baura David, Janta Oluwafolabomi, Akintunde Wariz, Olukotun Abiodun, Kazeem Popoola and Olaoye Akinyemi.

Others are: Adebanjo Olamide, Esiegbe Dare, Job Emmanuel, Idris Olarewaju, Bakare Sodiq, Popoola Waliu, Popoola Ibrahim, Balogun Tunde Daniel, Adegbite Richard, Owolabi Aderibigbe, Oniyide Benjamin, Sheye Oluwaseun, Enitan Babajide, Oguntayo Samud, Daramola Damilola, Adeniji Azeez, Shobola Adeolu, Odunbaku Tunde, Olamilekan Adedeji, Maja Toheeb, Giwa Olajide, Tolu Yusuf, Ashoregbabo Ayo and Adeosun Temitope.

Items recovered from them include eight exotic cars, mobile phones and laptops.

The indicted among them will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.

An Oyo State High Court has sentenced a former Deputy Registrar of the state Judiciary Mutiat Adio to five years in prison for stealing.

Crime Alert reports that this is the second time the suspect would be sentenced to prison having been jailed for seven years in 2018 for fraud.

The suspect was first sentenced to jail in 2018 having been accused of illegal sale land to the tune of nine point two million naira.

It was gathered that towards the end of last administration in Oyo State, the former Governor Abiola Ajimobi reduced her sentence which fast tracked her freedom.

Immediately after the freedom, Guarantee Trust Bank, wrote a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, reporting another fraud the suspect, Mutiat Adio had committed in 2008.

According to the petition, the suspect then was the secretary of the state Judiciary Cooperative Society when the cooperative applied for loan on behalf of the members from the bank.

The loan was up to 90 million naira.

Unknown to the members, the suspect inflated various sums of money which they applied for. a member, who applied for five hundred thousand naira was given five million and another who applied for three hundred thousand naira was given three million.

When approached the suspect told them to return the excess to her bank which she diverted to personal use.

According to the charge, the money paid back to her account was twenty two million, three hundred and seventy five thousand nine hundred and eleven naira.

The prosecuting Counsel, Dr. Ben Ubi called nine witnesses including members of the cooperative society who applied for the loan, while Defence Counsel, Mr. Olaniyi George, called four witnesses.

The Trial Judge, Justice O. m. Olagunju said the prosecution proved the case of stealing against the suspect beyond reasonable doubt,

He said confessional statement and the second defendant witness also confirmed that the suspect diverted the returned fund to her personal account .

Justice Olagunju also said the convict misled the Bank to package the amount more than what the members applied for, for her own benefit.

He described the act as pure criminal and found her guilty as charged.

Though the defense counsel, Mr. Olaniyi George, appealed to the court to be liberal in sentencing her, being a former member of judiciary in the state. the prosecution urged the court to give order for the convict to return the money to the victim of the fraud.

Pronouncing the judgement, the Trial Judge, Justice Olagunju sentenced her for the second time, to five years in prison, without any option of fine and ordered her to return the money to Guarantee Trust Bank.

In an interview, Prosecuting Counsel, Dr. Ben Ubi said the Judgment was a signal to those who were in such habit

However, the Defence Counsel, Mr. Olaniyi George said the judgement would be challenged at the court of appeal.

Staff of Nigeria Correctional center Oyo State Command were already at the court to receive their new guest before reporters left the court premises.

The Nigeria Police, Oyo state command has paraded 46 suspects for various offences.

The suspects were paraded on Thursday by commissioner of police, Mr Shina Olukolu at news briefing held at police headquarters Eleyele. Ibadan.

Two of the suspects, Mohammadu Usman and Alhaji majo, were arrested at Akinmorin, Oyo town for armed robbery and cattle rustling.

Six suspected members of eye cult group, mojeed Kazeem,kehinde Lawal, sodiq Isiaka Lekan Oyedan, Yekini Kazeem and Fadahunsi Olalekan and two other members of Aiye comfraternity, Oseni Lukman and Adeyemo Aliu were apprehended for causing the death of rival cult members at sango, Ibadan.

Adewale Kazeem and Oluwasina Fajobi who specialized in vehicle hijacking were arrested for stealing a Mazda bus, while another suspects, Sodiq Abiodun and Lekan Adesokan were paraded for camouflaging as military personnel as well as raping an 18 year old girl.

Other suspects, kolawole Gboyega Dauda Jamiu, Kazeem Lekan and Fasola Biodun were notorious criminals specialized in motorcycle robbery while Olajide Oladimeji and Akeem Sikiru got nabbed for armed robbery and receiving stolen items.

The commissioner of police, Mr Shina Olukolu advised the public to be careful with the kind of people they entrust confiidential issues with.

Items retrieved from the suspects include guns, cartridges, charm army uniform, millions of naira and a Corola Mazda.

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A mini coffin suspected to contain fetish materials was found with a 38-year-old suspected internet fraudster, Azeez Adebowale, when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, raided his house in Ibadan

Adebowale, who claimed to be using the coffin as soap rack, was among the six persons arrested following weeks of piecing together tips on intelligence received on their alleged involvement in internet fraud.

The suspects which included a lady, Toyinsola Bolumole, were picked up by men of the Commission’s Ibadan zonal office at locations around Oluyole and Alao-Akala Estates of the ancient city. read more on https://thecrimesalert.org/update/efcc-arrests-yahoo-boys-with-mini-coffin/320054

Ogun state police command has arrested a twenty seven year old Ejike Okata for allegedly matchetng a fifty year old woman, Adeyiba Oladipupo to death.

The police public relations officer of the command, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi told journalists in Abeokuta that the suspect was arrested today, March first, 2020 while trying to board an ebonyi state bound bus.

Mr Oyeyemi who explained that the incident occurred at Ayegbami area of ijebu ode said the suspect had ran away immediately after the incident before was caught.

The spokesman of the state command said the suspect who hailed from Onueke in Eza south local government area of Ebonyi claimed that deceased

accused him of stolen a phone which infuriated him. Continue reading https://thecrimesalert.org/update/for-accusing-of-him-theft-20-years-old-boy-hacks-woman-to-death-in-ogun/318280

A middle-aged man Edwin Otom and his daughter Hope Odey, were on Friday remanded at Agodi Custodial Center by an Ibadan Magistrate Court sitting at Iwo Road for stealing.

The remand order followed the three counts charge preferred against them by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police.

According to the Police Prosecutor, Mr. Sunday Ogunremi, the Suspects were alleged to have stolen up-to four hundred thousand belonging to one Mrs. Oritoke Ilesanmi.

He told the court that the daughter, the second defendant Hope Odeh was employed by the complainant in January 2019 and had been living with her since then.

He said the main duty of the second suspect was to stay at the complainant’s shop at Bola International Market, New Gbagi Ibadan and to sell clothes, collect money and deliver the money to her Boss.

According to him, on February 17, the complainant discovered that Hope was holding a phone. She questioned her to know how she got the phone and seized the phone, knowing that she could not buy anything except what the complainant bought for her, and this prompted her suspicion.

He explained that after seizing the phone, her father Edwin Otom called the complainant, saying he was the one that gave her daughter twenty five thousand Naira to buy the phone, but while questioning the daughter, she said a different thing.

One day, the complainant Mrs. Ileasanmi went to the room of the second defendant, Hope, and discovered the sum forty-nine thousand naira. When the complainant asked Hope how much she had, Hope said she had nothing on her but later confessed that the money was just a new transaction she made from her Boss’ business.

When the case was reported at the Gbagi Police Station, an officer, Fatai Oyelami was assigned to investigate the case. During the investigation, Fatai discovered a note in the room of the second defendant where she listed the amount she had allegedly stolen which was to the tune of four hundred and twenty eight thousand Naira.

In the note she stated various amount of money she had allegedly stolen, and when the recent forty nine thousand naira was deducted from the money the balance was three hundred and seventy nine naira. The Prosecutor said the money had been released to the owner, who is the complainant in the case.

When the Magistrate asked the defendants, who could not afford to get a lawyer to confirm all the allegations, especially the confessional statement purportedly written at the police station, the first defendant said police only wrote what they liked as he was not allowed to talk at the police station.

He denied collecting three hundred and seventy nine Naira from his daughter, saying he only collected forty five thousand Naira from his daughter.

Hope who first confessed to stealing three hundred and fifty thousand naira told the court that she gave her father forty five thousand and one of her uncles sixty thousand naira.

When the Magistrate asked her about the remaining money, Hope said she only stole forty five thousand, Sixty thousand Maura, and another forty thousand Maura..

When the court asked the Investigative Police Officer why Odey was not arrested, the IPO said when he wanted to arrest him, he met him on the road holding a very sharp cutlass.

The trial Magistrate Mr. Taiwo Oladiran adjourned the case to March 3 and ordered that the suspects be kept at Agodi Custodial Center.

Radio Nigeria reports that the Magistrate also asked the Prosecutor to talk to complainant to see if the case could be settled amicably, considering the fact that suspects might not be able to refund the stolen money.
Continue reading on: https://radionigeriaibadan.gov.ng/2020/02/28/police-arraign-man-daughter-for-theft/

It was a praise charged atmosphere at the maiden edition of Mega Praise Concert of Crime Alert Security Network, as Members of Staff, investors, family of the founder of the company come together to celebrate the goodness of the God over company.
The Concert which featured choristers from different denominations, was also witnessed by Chairman, Police Community Relations Committee Oyo State Command, Reverend Peter Omofoye.
Also ministering at the Concert are Crime Alert Choir and the popular Gospel singer, Lady Evangelist Bose Adeiwa, who charged vicinity with worship and praise songs.

https://thecrimesalert.org/update/pcrc-recommends-crime-alert-for-security-as-police-declares-supports-for-the-network/304562 Police Community Relations Committee Oyo State Command has recommended Crime Alert Security Network to the residents of the state to ensure adequate security of lives and Property.

Chairman PCRC, Oyo State Command, Reverend Peter Omofoye gave the recommendations at the investiture of the Chief Executive Officer, Crime Alert Security Network, Ambassador Amos Olaniyan as one of the Patrons of the Committee in Oyo State.

Reverend Omofoye who described Crime Alert Security Network as reliable when it comes to combating crime said people of Oyo State should embrace and subscribe to it.
“Let me tell you, we need to come together to fight crime and Security, I am telling you people of Oyo State, go and register with Crime Alert, Crime Alert is good”

In a remark the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr. shina Olukolu expressed readiness of the Nigeria Police Force to support any idea from private individuals to fight insecurity.

“Professionally that is what we want to do, that is what we have been doing and we call on you people to assist the Police, at all time with genuine, credible and useful information that will make police serve you better. We will partner with all group of individuals that will ensure that the performance of police officers is further enhanced.”

He said “ and that is why we have a gentleman here, who is operating the company Crime Alert, whatever it takes for us to partner, to ensure peace loving people of Oyo State sleep with their two eyes closed, we will be willing to be part of the such programs.

In his acceptance Speech as Patron Oyo State PCRC, Ambassador Amos Olaniyan promised to use his position to assist the Nigeria Police to enhance their operations.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office on has arraigned an ex-banker, Akinwole Oluwaseun Dosunmu, alongside his wife, Motunrayo Olanike Dosunmu before an Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan for stealing.

The duo were accused of stealing the sum of Two Million, Seven Hundred and Forty Thousand, Three Hundred Naira, Ninety-Two kobo from the Sterling Bank Plc.

According to the available information, Akinwale was a staffer of the bank, while his wife was a customer and a beneficiary in the bank’s Third Party Acquirer Scheme.

The bank had initiated the scheme as a marketing strategy through which relatives and friends of their marketing agents are awarded commission for bringing new customers to open and operate new accounts with the bank.

Akinwole, also a marketer with the bank, was appointed to coordinate the scheme.

Apart from the commission on account opening, the referral also enjoys certain percentage on the saving made through the accounts every month.

It was, however, alleged that while reviewing activities under the scheme in 2016, the bank discovered that most of the accounts appropriated to Motunrayo as a third-party acquirer were fraudulently tagged to her by her husband.

The investigation allegedly further revealed that the accounts were never sourced by neither of the couple, but by other third-party agents.
According to the petition filed by the bank, the couple had benefited a total of N2, 740,300.9292 as commission fraudulently paid to Motunrayo through the scheme.

It was on account of the allegation and further investigations by the EFCC that .....continued reading on https://thecrimesalert.org/update/ibadan-high-court-remands-couple-for-fraud/303974

Ogun State police command has arrested six robbery suspects over a recent attack at an estate around Olomoore, Abeokuta.

According to a statement by the command's spokesman, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects had invaded the estate with cutlass and inflicted injuries on the residents and also dispossessed them of handsets, laptop, cash and other valuables.

He explained that the arrest of the suspects were made possible following the tracking of a member of the gang. Continue reading on https://thecrimesalert.org/update/ogun-police-arrest-six-robbers-in-abeokuta/303344

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a 60-year-old fish-farmer, Muyiwa Otuyalo, for attempting to smuggle in substance believed to be hard drug for his son, Damilola Otuyalo, who is currently in the custody of the commission’s Ibadan zonal office.

The older Otuyalo was at the premises of the EFCC in Ibadan on Monday, February 17, 2020 supposedly to visit his son. But while discussing with the son, an officer noticed that he brought out a sachet of tablets and handed same to him. The officer subsequently raise alarm which led to the confiscation of the drug.

When the in-house nurse was called upon for assessment of the content, it was revealed that the said item was Rohypnol, a tranquilizer used under strict prescription for treatment of severe insomnia and assist in anesthesia.
Continue reading on https://thecrimesalert.org/update/efcc-arrests-60-year-old-man-for-supplying-son-hard-drug/302716

Two middle aged men, Waris Wasiu and Ishola Oyelere were on Monday Arraigned before an Ibadan magistrate court for Alleged robbery .

The Suspects, both 24years with others at large, were alleged to have attacked some people with stones, cutlasses and sticks at Orita Aperin Ibadan on February 9,2020 collected money and phone from them.

According to the Police Prosecutor Mrs. Gbemisola Adedeji , the victims of the alleged criminal act are Oladejo Jamiu from whom they collected one hundred and sixteen thousand and Techno phone, Wasiu Rasheed from whom they collected ten thousand naira, with a phone worth thirty eight thousand Naira.

The suspects were also accused of stealing ten thousand naira and itel phone five thousand five hundred naira ... Continue reading
https://thecrimesalert.org/update/police-arraign-robbers-using-stones-and-sticks-to-rob/301346

An Ibadan Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of four men, in prison for conducting themselves in manner that could cause panic in public.

The suspect, Semiu Alade, (50) Olusola Ojewale (55). Ramoni Oriyomi (47) and Semiu Adisa are facing four count charge bothering on conspiracy to Comit felony, unlawful possession of fire arms, and being in possession of gun without license.

According to the Police Prosecutor Mr. S. B Hammed, the suspects committed the offence on February 6,2020 at Ajibode village along Ijaye/Iseyin road, Ibadan.

They were alleged to have conspired with some others at large to ... continue reading on

https://thecrimesalert.org/update/court-remands-four-men-for-assult/292828

The Chief Executive Officer, Crime Alert Security Network, Ambassador Amos Olaniyan has been nominated as the patron Police Community Relations Committee Oyo state Command.

The Chairman, Police Community Relations Committee Oyo state Command Mr. Peter Omofoye made the nomination while speaking at the commissioning of Administrative Block donated by Chief Executive Officer, Crime Alert Security Network, Ambassador Amos Olaniyan to the Nigeria Police Egbeda Division.

Mr. Omofoye who commended Ambassador Olaniyan said the gesture would made operation more convenient for officers of Egbeda Police Division.

The Chairman PCRC Egbeda Division Mr. Moses Adisa described the donor as a lover of human welfare.

He also promised that the PCRC in the division would continue to promote and support Police in their efforts to secure the society.
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https://thecrimesalert.org/update/crime-alert-boss-becomes-oyo-state-pcrc-patron/289784

The Chief Executive Officer, Crime Alert Security Network, Ambassador Amos Olaniyan has been nominated as the patron Police Community Relations Committee Oyo state Command.

The Chairman, Police Community Relations Committee Oyo state Command Mr. Peter Omofoye made the nomination while speaking at the commissioning of Administrative Block donated by Chief Executive Officer, Crime Alert Security Network, Ambassador Amos Olaniyan to the Nigeria Police Egbeda Division.

Mr. Omofoye who commended Ambassador Olaniyan said the gesture would made operation more convenient for officers of Egbeda Police Division.

The Chairman PCRC Egbeda Division Mr. Moses Adisa described the donor as a lover of human welfare.

He also promised that the PCRC in the division would continue to promote and support Police in their efforts to secure the society.