November 22, 2024

As the Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, turned the heat on internet fraudsters, operating within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, a suspected fraudsters on Friday injured an operative of the commission.

On Thursday April 25, 2019, the Commission arrested Mmizoro Chinedu and Utyo Philip at the Nigerian Army Resettlement Estate, Jikwoyi, Abuja.

The suspects were arrested following a tip-off that alleged that they were perpetrating internet fraud. The suspects put up a fight while resisting arrest which resulted in injury on one of the EFCC operatives.

One of the suspects, Mmizoro Chinedu who wanted to conceal evidence against him repeatedly threw his phone into the toilet but it was later retrieved by the operatives and is currently undergoing digital forensics investigation in the Commission.

Similarly, the zone raided the Kings Court Estate residence of three suspected internet fraudsters.

They are: Odili Augustine, Odili Philips and Elvis Albert. The home of the three suspects was raided following an anonymous tip-off to the Commission on the activities of the suspects who were alleged to have swindled unsuspecting victims off their hard-earned money.

Some items recovered from the three suspects include, a white Honda Crosstour, laptops, sophisticated phones and documents of some landed properties.

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