{"id":184430,"date":"2020-01-13T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=184430"},"modified":"2020-01-13T23:53:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:53:40","slug":"efcc-arrests-8-suspected-internet-fraudsters-in-ibadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=184430","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests 8 suspected internet fraudsters in Ibadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Office, on Monday, arrested eight suspected internet fraudsters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued by the commission\u2019s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, and made available to newsmen on Monday in Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Uwujaren, the suspects, whose ages ranged between 17 and 30 years, were apprehended at different locations in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He said that their arrests followed series of intelligence received by the commission concerning their alleged involvement in internet-related crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Uwujaren listed some of the items recovered from them to include six exotic cars, various brands of phones, laptops, international passports and several documents alleged to contain false pretences.<\/p>\n<p>He said that those found to have cases to answer among the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Office, on Monday, arrested eight suspected internet fraudsters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. This was contained in a statement issued by the commission\u2019s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, and made available to newsmen on Monday in Ibadan. According to Uwujaren, the suspects, whose ages ranged between 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184431,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,866,1172],"class_list":["post-184430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-efcc","tag-fraudsters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184430","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=184430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}