A suspected serial fraudster has finally been arrested by the
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja after
more than two months’ of frantic manhunt for him over a $92,000 scam.
Princewell Arinze Chukwueze’s arrest followed an allegation of sham
transactions involving him and a well known Bureau de change operator in
Lagos on May 10, 2013.
The EFCC recovered a variety of items from him including 21 different
telephone handsets, complimentary cards of African Development Bank
bearing Aboki J. Brown, fake $15,000; different cheque books of
According to reports, Chukwueze had introduced himself as a Director
of African Development Bank based in Cote D’ Ívoire named Aboki J. Brown
and he used his fake identity to dupe the Bureau de change operator at
Sura Shopping Complex, Sandgrouse, Lagos.
Sources claim that Chukwueze initially offered to buy $65,000 from
him but then increased it to $92,000 and made arrangements for the
exchange at a branch of Wema Bank Plc in Lekki, Lagos.
But when the operator got to the bank with the dollars, Chukwueze
pleaded with the operator to accompany him in his siren-blaring Toyota
Hilux Pick-Up Van to a “nearby branch of Zenith Bank Plc” instead so he
could give him the naira equivalent of the foreign currency.
However, on their way there, Chukwueze was said to have picked up two
armed men on the road who forcefully dispossessed the operator of the
$92,000.
Chukwueze is also known to have used several other gimmicks to scam
several bureau de change operators in Lagos and Abuja and was arrested
on one of those operations while trying to defraud another bureau de
change operator of $110,000.
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