The Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested four suspects for allegedly attempting to carry out a fraudulent bank wire transfer of $200,000( N72, 000, 000) from an unsuspecting foreigner’s bank account.
The four suspected fraudsters are Ajiero Onyeka, Clement Peter, Mustapha Zubiri, and Agbo Austine Taylor.
“A team of EFCC operatives swooped down on the suspects as they were about to transfer the said amount from the account of an unsuspecting foreigner into a domiciliary account in Nigeria,” EFCC’s spokesman Tony Orilade said in a statement on Saturday.
“The Commission was tipped off when the suspects were sourcing for domiciliary account number which they will use to receive the money,” he added. Read more
