The Yahoo Boys were handed to the EFCC’s personnel in Ibadan, Oyo state, by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) for further investigation. This was revealed by the Acting Head, Media and Publicity of EFCC, Mr Tony Orilade, who made a statement and presented to newsmen in Abuja.
Orilade said that the suspects, who were between the ages of 22 years and 29 years were Ebenezer Oluwafemi, Kolade Sogo and Oluwagbenga Ejikunke.
He said that they were arrested on Tuesday following series of intelligence gathered by the security operatives.
“Preliminary investigations further revealed that the suspects allegedly got involved in different romance scam posing as female foreigners to fleece unsuspecting victims on the social media.
“At the point of arrest, varied fetish materials, two laptops and five different brands of cell phones were recovered from them.
“Several documents containing false pretences were also recovered from the suspects,” he said.
The statement said that the Head, Ibadan Office of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, said the handing over of the suspects had brought the number of Advance Fee fraudsters arrested in Ibadan to 40 in a couple of weeks.
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“The zone is no longer a hiding place for the fraudsters.
“Investigation is still ongoing and the suspects will soon be charged to court,” the statement quoted him as saying.
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