EFCC Sting Operation Nabs 14 FUTA Students, Confiscates 10 Exotic Cars

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  EFCC,  have arrested fourteen students of the Federal University of Technology,  Akure, FUTA Ondo State.

They were arrested alongside nineteen( 19) others in the early hours of Wednesday,  February 14,  2024 for suspected internet crimes.

The suspects were arrested at different residential locations within Akure metropolis following  intelligence  on their alleged nefarious activities. Specifically, the sting operation that yielded their arrest was a response to strident calls to the EFCC by neighbours and parents around the locations, to save their children from being lured into internet-related activities by the suspects.

 Items recovered at the point of arrest include ten exotic cars, phones, laptops and one motor bike.

The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded, the EFCC said in a statement.

Meanwhile, besides the arrest of the FUTA students by the EFCC, Justice Abdulhamid Yakubu of the  Gombe State High Court Gombe,  on February 12, 2024 convicted and sentenced one Isiyaku Dahiru and his company, Zafran and Brothers Investment Limited to twelve (12) months imprisonment for obtaining the sum of  N3,500 000.00 (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) under false pretences. 

Dahiru and his company were arraigned on a one- count charge bordering on cheating and fraudulent conversion  by the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC.

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