Magu makes revelations as EFCC, FBI announces recoveries from ‘Yahoo boys’
Magu, who spoke at a joint FBI/EFCC media briefing in Lagos on Tuesday, through Mohammed Umar Abba, Director of Operations, EFCC, said 167 persons had been arrested.
“I am happy to inform you that our efforts in coordinating the EFCC/FBI joint operations in Nigeria recorded tremendous successes leading to a number of arrests, seizures and recoveries. The suspected fraudsters arrested in the course of this operation will be persecuted accordingly. Uche Ahamdi, Legal Attache, FBI office in Nigeria, said the Agency received 20,373 Business Email Compromise and Email Account Compromise complaints with losses of more than $1.2 billion.
“The FBI-led operation involved multiple U.S. law enforcement partners, including the Internal Revenue Service , U.S. Secret Service , U.S. Postal Inspection Service , US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and Homeland Security Investigations .
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