EFCC nabs Instagram football agent for N11m fraud

A Nigerian man posing as a football agent with connections to link footballers to foreign clubs on Instagram identified as Osagie Destiny Etinosa has been arrested for alleged N11 million fraud.

Etinosa with Instagram account @ officialking _ etto. was arrested for by operatives of EFCC in Benin for collecting N11 million from one Samuel Beke Ohazuruike with the promise to help him secure trials with Romanian and Bulgarian clubs.

However, he failed to fulfil the promise and after efforts to recover his money proved abortive, his victim dragged him to EFCC leading to his arrest, Dele Oyewale, the spokesperson for the anti-graft agency said in a statement.

The full statement reads “Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Osagie Destiny Etinosa for alleged N11 million fraud.

The suspect, who was arrested through an open-source intelligence, had been parading himself on Instagram account @ officialking _ etto. as a football agent who specialises in linking footballers with foreign clubs for trials and recruitment.

In one instant case, Etinosa allegedly collected the sum of N11,000,000 from one Samuel Beke Ohazuruike with the promise of securing trials for him in Romanian and Bulgarian clubs which never materialised.

“Efforts by the victim to recover his money proved abortive.

“The suspect will soon be arraigned in court.”