{"id":163188,"date":"2019-10-26T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163188"},"modified":"2019-10-26T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:32:19","slug":"efcc-bursts-419-syndicate-that-defrauded-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163188","title":{"rendered":"EFCC bursts 419 syndicate that defrauded professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png 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\/09\/EFCC-Arrests-Six-For-Alleged-ATM-Scam.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has cracked down on a gang of fraudsters specialised in exploiting personal data of foreign-based Nigerians to defraud their friends and relations back home.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the gang-members \u2013 Hon. Oladipupo Adebayo, Bimbo Bilewu, Ibrahim Odunayo, and Oyeleye Oluwatosi \u2013 are currently in the EFCC custody while others are still at large.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the EFCC said, \u201cThe commission had launched a manhunt on the suspects after receiving a petition from one Prof Godwin Ekhaguere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe professor alleged in the petition that the gang defrauded him of N565,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also alleged that the fraudsters made him part with recharge vouchers worth N36,000 in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to him, he only realised that he had been scammed after he managed to reach his friends on the phone, who denied sending anyone to him. That prompted the petition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was in the course of investigating the allegations that the commission arrested Bilewu at an ATM point where he went to cash the money sent to him by one Pastor Osuji.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncidentally, Osuji was also a victim of a crime similar to that which the commission was investigating.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has cracked down on a gang of fraudsters specialised in exploiting personal data of foreign-based Nigerians to defraud their friends and relations back home. Four of the gang-members \u2013 Hon. Oladipupo Adebayo, Bimbo Bilewu, Ibrahim Odunayo, and Oyeleye Oluwatosi \u2013 are currently in the EFCC custody while others are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153463,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658],"class_list":["post-163188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163188","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=163188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}