Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested two suspects for obtaining money from some persons in the state under false pretenses.
The suspects, whose names were given as Dr. Madu Ifeanyi aged 50 and Mr. Linus Onyekwere, 60, all of Ugonakpanpa in Onitsha were alleged to have defrauded one Mr. Emmanuel Anamene of Odakpu, Onitsha of the sum of N1.4 million under false pretense that they have a common wealth loaning program where they asked him to pay N500,000 and gain N1 million as interest after a month.
A statement signed by the Police Public relations Officer, CSP Haruna Mohammed, said that the suspects also claimed to have contracts they executed with former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and requested them to pay N20 Million Naira before the contract money will be paid to them.
They were also alleged to have told the suspect to bring another sum of N500, 000 as others have done to enable them raise the N20 million needed by CBN to enable them get the money from the Apex bank.
He said that the suspects operated as a syndicate by migrating from one State to the other with same method of defrauding their unsuspecting victims after getting vital information of their victims through bogus links or fake investment adverts on social media platforms.
The PPRO said that one of the methods used by these syndicate is to block the phone lines of their victims account for hours, clone it or re-register the number to generate the customer’s pin and thereafter drain all the money in that account within a shortest period of time.
Mohammed said that the complainant so far gave them the sum of N1.4 million since September 2020 and has neither received any interest nor the principal money he invested.
