EFCC To Arraign Arinze, Internet Fraud Kingpin, Other in Asaba
Adetokunbo Fakeye
Detectives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has busted a syndicate, which specialised in Internet fraud and arrested the leader and other.
The duo, Arinze Ihekwo and Chinemelu Utaka, according to Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson for EFCC, are to be arraigned on a 13-count charge bordering on alleged Internet fraud, Email hacking and obtaining money by false pretence before the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State.
One of the counts of the prepared charge reads: ‘‘That you Arinze Ihekwo( alias Ihekwo Arinze Christain) on or about November 1, 2013 in Asaba within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court retained the sum of $34,020.00( Thirty-Four Thousand and Twenty United States of America Dollars) only in your current account number:0046750454 domiciled at Guaranty Trust Bank which sum you reasonably ought to have known represent proceeds of unlawful act and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15( 2) (d) of the Money Laundering( Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.’’
EFCC was said to have launched investigation into their activities, following a petition by the Department of State Service, DSS.
The Service in the petition informed that one Clifford Okemmuo had, in a separate matter, disclosed that Ihekwo,( a.k.a. Christian Ihekwo Arinze), belongs to a syndicate that specializes in cloning unsuspecting victims’ emails in order to trap their financial- related transactions.
