{"id":257474,"date":"2023-03-23T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=257474"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:15:52","slug":"lagos-notorious-visa-racketeer-arrested-for-forging-un-invitation-letters-other-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/03\/23\/lagos-notorious-visa-racketeer-arrested-for-forging-un-invitation-letters-other-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos: Notorious visa racketeer arrested for forging UN invitation letters, other documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Notorious visa racketeer, Abioye Abolaji, has been arrested and arraigned by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) Ikoyi, Lagos, on an eleven-count charge bordering on alleged forgery of United Nations invitation letters, obtaining money by false pretence, false representation and stealing.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of PSFU, SP Eyitayo Johnson, in a statement on Thursday, March 23, 2023, said 53-year-old Abolaji, is a member of a notorious syndicate that specialises in visa fraud, forgery of United Nations invitation letters and other documents.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read, \u201cThe arrest of the suspect was in furtherance to a petition from the Diplomatic Security Services (DSS) Regional Security office at the United States Consulate General (USCG), Lagos; which requested discrete investigation into forged documents submitted by certain C-2 Visa applicants to the Non-Immigrant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/03\/18\/efcc-arrests-canadian-visa-fraudster-in-abuja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visa<\/a> (NIV) Unit of USCG. C-2 Visa is a NIV category reserved for participants at United Nations (UN) Conference\/Events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigation by USCG and PSFU into 77 C-2 applications from 24 organisations in Nigeria to attend 2 separate Conferences, namely, 67th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and UN 2023 Water Conference scheduled to take place in New York between 22nd-24th March, 2023; revealed that most of the applicants are not qualified for the Visa classification they applied for because the applicants provided forged UN Invitation Letters.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-257477 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/kunlenet07\/2023\/03\/23\/Abioye-Abolaji.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/kunlenet07\/2023\/03\/23\/Abioye-Abolaji.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/kunlenet07\/2023\/03\/23\/Abioye-Abolaji-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/kunlenet07\/2023\/03\/23\/Abioye-Abolaji-642x1024.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The applicants, who claimed to be employees of Osun &amp; Sons Agricultural Venture, Ray D. 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