{"id":149210,"date":"2019-09-04T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T07:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149210"},"modified":"2019-09-04T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T07:41:07","slug":"efcc-60-internet-fraudsters-arrested-37-convicted-in-aibom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149210","title":{"rendered":"EFCC: 60 internet fraudsters arrested, 37 convicted in A\u2019Ibom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Three-Per-Cent-Of-Our-Men-Are-Corrupt-Says-EFCC-Official.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had arrested over 60 suspected Internet fraudsters and secured 37 convictions since 2017 in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Zonal Head of the commission, Mr Garba Dugum, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Uyo, the capital, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dugum, who was represented by the Deputy Zonal Head, Alex Ebbah, said EFCC was collaborating with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in the fight against cyber crime.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;In furtherance to the acting Chairman\u2019s directive to all zones, we have independently launched intensive investigative actions against this infamous \u201cYahoo Boys\u201d culmination in various strategic raids and onslaught on their hideouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur efforts in this regards have recorded tremendous success which resulted in over 60 arrests, 37 convictions and recovery of exotic cars and properties suspected to have been acquired through the proceeds of the crimes.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had arrested over 60 suspected Internet fraudsters and secured 37 convictions since 2017 in the state. Zonal Head of the commission, Mr Garba Dugum, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Uyo, the capital, on Tuesday. Dugum, who was represented by the Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2830,3],"tags":[4365,866,10672],"class_list":["post-149210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-law","category-news","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-efcc","tag-internet-fraudsters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}