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YAHOO BOY APPREHENDED BY THE EFCC FOR €53, 000 FRAUD

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, appreheded one Tonwerigha Oyintonbra Tombrown for purportedly duping an Irish pro, Izabela Glogowska to the tune of €53,000 (about N11.6million) in an Internet scam. According to a declaration by the delegate of the antigraft association, Wilson Uwajaren, the Irish woman Glogowska charged that Tombrown who acted like a detectable online merchant Michael Freeman, betrayed her into sending him €1,000 through Western Union/Money gram as portion for a business deal. She included that he later put a show to be one Ben Andrews asking for an additional €10,000 stating that there was a technique change. The same Andrews provoked her to send the trade to Tombrown out Nigeria, who twisted up possessing the money to a fake record.  Attempts to recover her money showed unproductive, from now on she engaged the EFCC. The suspect would be charged to court when examinations are done up.

See How Nigerian Securities Shared N16.5bn Arms Deal for 2015 Elections

More secrets are being unraveled as the investigation into the $2.1million arms deal fraud deepens. According to a report from The Nation, about N16.5billion was released to the Nigeria Police, Nigerian Air Force, Nigerian Army and ONSA for “logistic requirement for 2015 elections.” The breakdown is as follows:  IGP General Election OPS Fund Account (N10billion);  Nigerian Air Force OPS Account (N1billion);  Nigerian Army Operations Account (N5billion)  ONSA (N500million).

CBN Deputy Governor and Others Suspended! Guess why???

In a hard-line decision, a deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria and four deputy directors have been suspended by the apex bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for failing to follow financial regulations and due process, leading to the scamming of the bank by fraudsters. Information gathered last night that the suspended Deputy Governor, Financial System Surveillance, Joseph Nnanna, responded to some spam emails without first cross-checking the authenticity of the mails and following CBN stringent payment process before authorising the release of funds when the governor and several senior officials of the bank were on a flight to China last month. The names of the affected deputy directors could not be ascertained but they include the deputy director in charge of payment, the deputy director trade and exchange department, and the deputy director in the office of the governor, who heeded Nnanna’s directive to pay when they themselves ought to know CBN’s payment due proc...

Cross River Police DSP in Bribe Scandal

what is this country turning into? The DSP, Mr. David Ekong, of the Cross River State Police Command and some of his subordinates have met their waterloo in the wake of get-together a pay off of N24, 000 checked money. By report by Punch Newspaper, unknown to DSP Ekong, an Assistant Inspector General orchestrated the stamped notes to get the 'savage officers' in the force. It was represented that DSP Ekong and his gathering had unlawfully caught and kept a particular Ottobong Inyang and asked for N250, 000 as pay off for his protection. The report further revealed that Inyang was caught on February 19, 2016 for guaranteed equipped theft and auto burglary and was kept at the state Police Command home office in Calabar however was released on February 21, 2016 in the wake of paying N50, 000 to Ekong. It was collected that Inyang was caught for charged furnished theft and auto burglary not long after he obtained a Volkswagen Passat from an auto shop along IBB Way by E...