Officers of the Special Fraud Unit Ikoyi Lagos have arrested three men
Michael Adeoye,Ody Chidebe and Moradeyo Olalekan for alleged conspiracy,
forgery and obtaining under false pretence following a petition
received from Deputy Consular-General/Head of Visa Operations, Italian
Embassy.
Following the petition, the Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit,
ordered a team of police men to apprehend some travel agents who
specialized in procuring fake health insurance certificate, visa and
other vital travel documents for prospective travelers.
The petitioner further alleged that with the fake health insurance
certificate, Nigerians will apply for visa at the Italian Embassy and
this has been a source of worry as it affects the operations of the
Embassy.
DSP NGOZI ISINTUME-AGU, the Police Public Relations Officer of the SFU
said
In the course of investigation, it was discovered that Michael Adeoye, a
38yr old from Otun-Ekiti in Ekiti State who works at Nuyork Network
Services at Mini Shop 2, TBS Lagos as a travel agent is the mastermind
of the whole crime. He usually commit the crime using Elvia Health
Insurance Company based in Denmark and Asa Health Insurance Company
based in Germany.
“He(Adeoye) confessed that he found the Health Insurance Companies on
line and has been defrauding the companies by booking health insurance
certificates for travelers without paying any money to the companies.
The cost for procuring the certificate is 17Euro but they charge 47Euro
which according to them is equivalent to N10,000.00 and this fraud has
been going on since 2012.
The second suspect, Ody Chidebe, a 31yr old from Nri, Anambra State and a
graduate of Federal Polytechnic, Okoh who claimed to be an Insurance
Agent corroborated the confession of the first suspect that the business
has been on since 2012. According to her, as an Insurance Agent, she
can obtain an insurance certificate from any source whether genuine or
fake and the Elvia Insurance Certificate was given to her by Michael
Adeoye and they have been succeeding in using it to procure visa for
travelers until their act was discovered”
The statement by the police added that the third suspect Moradeyo
Olalekan, a 45yr old from Owu in Abeokuta, Ogun State, a travel agent
and the owner of Nuyork Network Services where Michael Adeoye is
presently working. His office serves as an avenue for perpetrating the
act. He confirmed that Elvia Health Insurance is one of the listed
travel insurance on the list of required and accepted health insurance
on the website of list travel documents by the Embassy and can be booked
on line. He shifted the whole blame to Michael Adeoye whom he said, is
in a better position to explain the health insurance in question.
Other documents recovered in his office are international passports
which according to him belonged to different people for booking of
appointments or payment of visa fees in banks.
Investigation is on-going. Suspects will be charged to court soonest.
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