6th January, 2014
Ayodeji Dedeigbo
The police in Lagos have arrested two men identified as Olumide Ayobami and Martins Tokunbo for allegedly defrauding a businessman to the tune of N17million.
The suspects were arrested by officers attached to the Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), in Idi-Araba Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria recently.
The victim, Yakubu Mumuni, was duped after they lied to him that that they would assist him in clearing the goods he was expecting from abroad.
The money was said to have been collected from him instalmentally.
P.M. NEWS gathered that it was Adamu, an acquaintance of Mumuni’s and a member of the 419 syndicate that gave out all information about the victim to the suspects.
The suspects acted like foreigners and used Martins who speaks with a foreign accent to lure him to do business with them.
Speaking on how he was initiated into advanced fee fraud otherwise known as 419, 40 year old Olumide Ayobami said that he was deported from Russia in 2008 and became jobless immediately he arrived Nigeria.
“When I was in Moscow, I worked as a bar man and when my visa expired, I used a residential permit which I got through the Nigerian Embassy for some time before I was eventually deported.
“My deportation led me into 419 business. I was introduced by a friend who was also deported from Russia,” he said.
The second suspect, Martins, 46, who was deported from Republic of Ireland, said that he only collected N2million from the victim to assist him in clearing his goods from overseas.
The resident of 33, Taiwo Street, Idi-Araba, Mushin, Lagos State, said that he was initiated into fraud by his friend, Murphy, after his (Martins) deportation from the Republic of Ireland in 2010.