Three students Fisayo Adetoro, Emmanuel Omole, and Wale
Ayeni who specialize in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public
through the internet have been arrested.
In a Press statement Ondo Police Imagemaker, Mr. Oluwole Ogodo, said
that the three undergraduate students were members of a notorious
internet fraud syndicate.
Mr. Ogodo said that by using professional police tactics detectives
from the Akure Area Command nabbed the suspects at "Ilesha Garage and
Delta Hotel" in Akure.
Mr. Ogodo disclosed that Fisayo Adetoro is a 300-Level, Computer
Science student at the Joseph Ayodele Babalola University, (JABU) in
Ikeji Arakeji, Osun state. The Police Spokesman added that Emmanuel Omole and Wale Ayeni were
expelled students of the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA). Mr. Ogodo narrated the method in which undergraduate students have
been defrauding their victims:
"Through online transactions, the
syndicate had, sometime in April 2015, requested six i-phones valued at
Nine Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand Naira (N984,000:00k) from Ajiboye
Adeyinka Kabir of No. 3, Oyekunle Street, Ajegunle, Lagos State.
They lied to Ajiboye that they were working at Government House, Akure.
"Ajiboye brought the six i-phones to Akure as requested by the
syndicate on 10/5/2015. On arrival at Ondo garage Akure, the three
fraudsters took him in their operational vehicle, a Nissan Armanda Jeep
with Registration Number JS-28-EKY, and pretended to be heading for
Government House, Akure.
"On the way, they made a detour to Fiwasaye-Ijapo Road, Akure where
they forcefully took the I-phones from Ajiboye, and pushed him out of
the vehicle in motion. Ajiboye sustained various degrees of injuries and
was rushed by Policemen at Ijapo Division to the Police Clinic, Akure
for immediate medical attention.
"On 25/5/2015, the syndicate also contacted one Akinola Segun of No.
29/31 Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos, and placed an order for another set of
five I-phones valued at Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira
(N820,000:00k).
"They again lied that they were lecturers at the Elizade University,
Ilara-Mokin. On arrival in Akure on 25/5/2015 at about 16:30hrs, they
conveyed Akinola in their operational jeep to a hotel on Ondo Road,
Akure. The three then drugged his food with swinol tablets and made away
with the five I-phones.
"The syndicate however ran out of luck on 2/6/2015 when they
unknowingly contacted the same Akinola Segun on a different website and
ordered five I-phones, and deceitfully presented themselves as lecturers
from the College of Agriculture, Akure.
"Akinola Segun immediately contacted the Akure Area Command’s office
where the Area Commander, ACP. Edward Ajogun psc, with his team of
detectives employed professional tactics that lead to their arrest of
the three students.”
The Police has impounded the alleged fraudsters’ operational
vehicle,a Nissan Armanda Jeep, with Registration Number JS-28-EKY,
valued at Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira.
Other items recovered from the
syndicate include: (i) three 16GB I-phones, (ii) one HTC phone, (iii)
one Blackberry Q10, (iv) one Techno phone, (v) Gold rings, (vi) Gold
necklace and (vii) Gold ear ring. These items are valued at Six Hundred
and Sixty Seven Thousand Naira.
The Police vowed to arraign the suspects in court.
Source: Saharareporters
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