The Lagos State Police Command has uncovered a building in the Iju area of Lagos State used for internet fraud training.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hudenyin, in a statement stated that the school, popularly called “Yahoo School,” has four Yahoo experts, among them two siblings, who had been running the school were arrested alongside six trainees, who were undergoing training in cybercrime and fraud during the operation.
The statement identified the main suspects arrested to include Chibuike Ihejika, 23; Stanley Ihejika, 22; Obiora Oyediba, 26 and Emmanuel Oyedibe, 25, while the six trainees are Okorie Henry; Otoh Chisom, 20; Okeke Kwufrochikwu, 26; Uchenna Obeji, 26; Minachi Udochukwu, 12 and Chinedu Ukachukwu, 23.
The statement went on to say that the underage trainee, Udochukwu had healing marks of injuries on his body allegedly inflicted on him by the main principal suspect to compel him into the commission of the criminal acts.
Preliminary investigations, according to him, revealed that the principal suspects of the facility recruited their trainees from Anambra State and engaged them to commit internet fraud and other related crimes.
He said the proceeds from their fraudulent activities were confiscated by the principal suspects. “All suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Yaba for further discreet investigations and prosecution.
“Efforts are ongoing to apprehend the sponsors, who financed the trainees’ enrollment in the school as well as the owner of the facility where these criminal and illegal activities took place.
“The owner of the facility is hereby warned in his own interest to turn himself in immediately at the SCID Panti from wherever he is hiding. The Lagos State Police Command will ensure that all suspects are charged to court for prosecution upon the conclusion of the investigation into the case.”
