The Economic and Financial Crime Comission (EFCC), Sokoto Zonal Office, in collaboration with the FBI, recorded a major breakthrough with the arrest, on August 29, of one Emmanuel Adedeji Oluwatosin, who is on the wanted list of the FBI.
The Zonal Head, Abdullahi Lawal, while parading the suspect in Sokoto on Thursday, September 5, 2019 explained that the suspect was arrested in Kaduna. Items recovered from the residence include two cars; Mercedes Benz E550, Mercedes Benz C450, an IPhone, laptops, modem and SIM cards.
He said preliminary investigation had so far revealed that about N 1, 437, 889, 157.15 passed through the suspect’s accounts and the commission has also traced the sum of N 70 million he invested somewhere. Efforts are on to recover the money. He said the suspect was reported by one of his victims, Abdullahi Ibrahim after he had defrauded another victim, Samaila Sani, a Bureau de Change operator to the tune of $33,850.“Meanwhile, the first complainant, Ibrahim alleged that Muzakkri Muhammad collected the sum of N2, 350,000 from him on the pretext of producing the $100,000 for him, which he has neither produced nor refunded the Naira equivalent given to him.
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