The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised the
alarm over its findings that some internet fraudsters had funded
some politicians into elective positions.
The agency also vowed to release names of such politicians and
their internet scammer sponsors.
The Zonal Head of EFCC, Port Harcourt Zone, Mr. Abdulrasheed
Bawa, disclosed this on Tuesday in Port Harcourt while speaking
with newsmen on the anti-graft agency’s collaboration with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in the fight against internet
fraud.
Bawa lamented that cyber crime was tarnishing Nigeria’s image
and killing genuine businesses, adding that the agency will soon
make public names of suspected cyber criminals and the candidates
they sponsored to contest public offices.
He stated that such publication would be done at the end of its
ongoing thorough investigation.
He disclosed that the EFCC in Port Harcourt zone had arrested
105 cyber crime suspects, and had also secured 32 convictions of
fraudsters in the last eight months.
The EFCC in the zone had also secured the conviction of 149 oil
thieves between January and August, Bawa said.
Explaining that the commission has been working on 13 suspected
internet fraudsters on FBI’s watch list, Bawa added that one
Ogbonnah Atoukaritou, who was formerly based in London; and one
Chidi Egbeonu, formerly based in Japan, were currently in EFCC
net.
“The last eight months have been months of intensive and
extensive investigations and prosecution of oil-related and several
internet-related cases in which the zone has recorded 149
convictions, recovered N268,934,375.75, $2,012,568.00 and 15,000.00
euros; with 162 cases pending in court,” Bawa further
disclosed.
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