{"id":11392,"date":"2019-08-29T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2019-08-29T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:01:54","slug":"latest-news-on-fbi-list-nigerias-anti-graft-agency-efcc-bust-ghana-hideouts-of-77-nigerians-indicted-for-america-internet-fraud-we-are-cracking-up-on-these-criminally-minded-nigerians-all-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/latest-news-on-fbi-list-nigerias-anti-graft-agency-efcc-bust-ghana-hideouts-of-77-nigerians-indicted-for-america-internet-fraud-we-are-cracking-up-on-these-criminally-minded-nigerians-all-our\/","title":{"rendered":"LATEST NEWS ON FBI LIST: Nigeria’s Anti-graft Agency, EFCC Bust GHANA Hideouts of 77 Nigerians indicted for America Internet Fraud…’We are cracking up on these criminally-minded Nigerians, All our offices on RED ALERT to arrest them’ * ‘We have recovered N486m in cash and arrested 28 suspects so far’ *The collaboration between the commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation led to the recovery of $314,000 and N373m * ’14 of the suspects have been charged and convicted while nine are still undergoing trial, as other five are still under investigations’-IBRAHIM MAGU, Acting Chairman of EFCC BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU, AMERICA FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, Naija Standard Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LATEST NEWS ON\nFBI LIST:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria’s\nAnti-graft Agency, EFCC Bust GHANA Hideouts of 77 Nigerians indicted\nfor America Internet Fraud…’We are cracking up on these\ncriminally-minded Nigerians, All our offices on RED ALERT to arrest\nthem’ <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* ‘We have\nrecovered N486m\nin cash and arrested 28 suspects so far’<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*The \ncollaboration\nbetween the commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation led to\nthe recovery of $314,000 and N373m<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

* ’14\nof the suspects have been charged and convicted while nine are still\nundergoing trial, as other five are still under\ninvestigations’-IBRAHIM MAGU, Acting Chairman of EFCC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\nGEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU, AMERICA FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, Naija Standard\nNewspaper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JUDGEMENT\nSEEMS TO BE QUICKLY KNOCKING FOR 77 NIGERIAN FUGITIVES WHO WERE\nINDICTED BY AMERICA’S FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, FBI, FOR\nSTEALING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ONLINE SCAMS WHICH HAS LED TO\nBILLIONS OF FUNDS LOST TO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has mandated its\noperatives to begin manhunt of the 77 Nigerians indicted by a Federal\nBureau of Investigations<\/strong><\/a>,\n<\/strong>FBI,\ninvestigation on internet fraud.It\nwas gathered that the operatives were also directed to crack down on\ncollaborators of internet fraud who are already on the radar of the\nEFCC across the country.\nThe\nsource said:\u201c<\/em>All\nthe offices in Nigeria have been placed on red alert to track them<\/em>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also,\nthe chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim\nMagu<\/strong>,\nwhile speaking over the weekend said the commission will soon storm\nvarious known hideouts of the suspected fraudsters in Nigeria.\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magu<\/strong>\n<\/strong>said\nthe commission has gathered the information that most of the\nfraudsters have moved to Ghana and other neighbouring countries with\nthe hope of evading possible arrest.He\nsaid: \u201c<\/em>It\nis not as if we are not doing anything, we are re-energising; we are\nworking. We will go out and storm all their hideouts.\u201d<\/em>\n\u201c<\/em>We\nwill also cooperate with our partners. Last time we were in Ghana we\nrealised that at a point they were so many there. They have all gone\nto Ghana. \u201cMost of them are in Ghana so we will cooperate with our\nneighbours to check the menace of Yahoo Yahoo boys and cybercrime\nsince it is a borderless crime.\u201d <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the\n <\/strong>Acting\nChairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has said the collaboration between the\ncommission and the FBI led to the recovery of $314,000 and N373m.Speaking\nduring a media briefing in Lagos on Tuesday, Magu said the commission\nhas also arrested 28 suspects in the process. 14\nof the suspects have been charged and convicted while nine are still\nundergoing trial. The other five are still under investigations.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magu,\nwho spoke through Mohammed Rabo, Zonal Head, EFCC, Lagos, said while\nthe sum of $314,000 had been recovered, the sum of N373m had been\ntraced to various commercial banks by operatives attached to the\nLagos zonal office of the commission. The monies equal N486m in all.\nRecall\nthat the FBI last week released a list of 80 persons most of whom are\nNigerians for alleged online fraud. The\nrelease also generated mixed reactions from Nigerians on social\nmedia. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Additional\nReports by Nigerian Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LATEST NEWS ON FBI LIST: Nigeria’s Anti-graft Agency, EFCC Bust GHANA Hideouts of 77 Nigerians indicted for America Internet Fraud…’We are cracking up on these criminally-minded Nigerians, All our offices on RED ALERT to arrest them’ * ‘We have recovered N486m in cash and arrested 28 suspects so far’ *The collaboration between the commission and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}