According to a press release by The Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), the Unit has arrested some members of internet fraud syndicate that specialized in defrauding unsuspecting wealthy foreign women who are in dire need of husbands.
The Press Release reads:
POLICE SPECIAL FRAUD UNIT ARREST TWO INTERNET ROMANCE SCAMMERS. Suspects:
i. Yunusa Okonkwo and
ii. Henry Chinedu Ogu.
A petition which was received via the Unit’s e-mail from one of such victims, a US citizen resident in New Jersey alleged that sometime in April 2013, she met the 2nd suspect Henry Chinedu Ogu on a dating site and both started a relationship which lasted for months until the suspect manipulated and made her to believe that he was in trouble in Nigeria and needed some financial assistance. She further stated that she sent the sum of $350,000.00 US Dollar to the two account numbers provided by the suspect. The account numbers were Sky Bank Account Number 36204796 and Ecobank account No. 04087350 belonging to Faneece Business Services International.
Police investigation showed that the account holder is one Yunusa Okonkwo of No. A1 Giwa Road, U/Muazu Kaduna where he was subsequently arrested. His arrest led to the arrest of the principal suspect, Henry Chinedu Ogu.
Yunusa Okonkwo a 42year old from Amuri Nkanu West LGA of Enugu State, is a patent medicine dealer that runs a Bureau De Change. He confessed that he is the account holder of Faneece Business Services International and admitted that he provided his two bank accounts for the illicit transactions. He also stated that the 2nd suspect. Henry provided him with his account number where he transferred the money after converting it to Naira. The account detail is Diamond Bank account No. 0021206871 with account name Raydeus Synergy Nigeria Limited. He also added that he always deduct his commission of N2.00 per Dollar before paying in the money.
Henry Chinedu Ogu is 29years old from Amafor – Ishingwa Umuahia, Abia State. He claimed to be one of the Directors of a company called Raydeus Synergy Nigeria Limited. He confessed to the alleged crime that he sent the account details of the 1st suspect to the victim who in turn paid the sum of $295,000.00 Dollars into the account which the 1st suspect Yunusa converted to Naira before paying into his Diamond Bank. He corroborated the Complainant’s statement that they met on a dating site last year January 2013 and started communicating and exchanging e-mails. He also confessed that he deceived the victim into believing that he wanted to marry her but was stranded in Nigeria and needed financial assistance. He further admitted that he had spent all the money, that he used N9million to purchase a heavy duty generating plant which Police had recovered. Also he purchased a plot of land for N800,000.00 along Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. The cash sum of N2million was also recovered from him.
Investigation is on-going. Effort is being intensified towards the recovery of the remaining monies fraudulently obtained from the Complainant or the proceeds thereof.
Suspects will be charged to Court to serve as a deterrent to others.
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