Islamic clerics arrested for alleged fraud, rape in Abeokuta
The suspects were also accused of having unlawful carnal knowledge of their female victims.
The complainant, who DAILY POST learnt, is a marketer with a popular property/real estate company was said to be on marketing assignment when she came across the suspects who claimed to be Islamic clerics and indicated interest in purchasing large expanse of land which they claimed they wanted to use for construction of their mosque.
Using this method, the police said, they succeeded in fraudulently obtaining by false pretence, the sum of N70,000 from her after they had allegedly lured her into their house where one of them was said to have forcefully raped her. “Their efforts paid off when three amongst them were apprehended while waiting for the victim to bring the money they demanded for, and one of them escaped.
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