EFCC urges FBI cybercrimes suspects to surrender
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has advised the 80 Nigerians indicted in massive cybercrime cases been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States of America to come out of their hiding and clear their names before its operatives get to them.
According to Ebelo, the zonal office of the agency has since the beginning of the year have arrested a total of 263 suspects for cybercrime related offences out of which 111 had been convicted and sentenced to various jail terms. He further disclosed the arrest of one internet fraud kingpin, Ajayi Gbenga Festus, arrested in Ekiti state and alleged to be working with other cybercriminals abroad in what he described as highly sophisticated web of a conspiracy designed to illegally access accounts of individuals and organisations to defraud them of their money.
He promised that the EFCC would do everything within its constitutional powers to ensure that the interests of hardworking and law-abiding Nigerians are adequately protected, attributing the success achieved so far by the Zone to the exemplary leadership of the Acting Chairman of the Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu.
“As a responsible organization, the EFCC will do everything within its constitutional powers to ensure that interests of hardworking and law-abiding Nigerians are adequately protected, and that they are not denied the fruit of their labour by the recalcitrant few.
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