Yahoo boys kidnap colleague over proceeds of fraud
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested four suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo Boys, with two female members for allegedly abducting their colleague over sharing of proceeds of their fraud business.
Penpushing reports that the Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Opeyemi made this known on Thursday in a statement and gave identities of the suspects as include Agbe Simeon, Messiah Nicky, Oladapo Dolapo and Yetunde Shonola who were arrested at Orile Imo village in Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun state.
The police spokesman said the arrest followed an information received by the Police at Owode Egba Divisional Headquarters, that one Haruna Usman, who had been abducted since Thursday, 22nd of December 2022, is being held hostage somewhere in Orile Imo.
“Upon the information, the DPO Owode Egba division, CSP Popoola Olasunkanmi, quickly mobilized his men and stormed the area, where four amongst the abductors were apprehended while two others escaped”, he said.
Penpushing further reports that Oyeyemi said preliminary investigation revealed that the victim and the suspects belong to an internet fraudster syndicate, and that they recently swindled somebody whose identity is not yet known of N26, 437,950, but the victim only gave the sum of N2,200 to his other colleagues, claiming that the money has not been paid completely by their client.
“This infuriated his colleagues who then lured him to an herbalist home at Orile Imo and held him hostage there since Thursday, 22nd of December 2022, with threat to kill him there if he refused to give them their complete share .But while they were there, information got to the police who moved in, rescue the victim and apprehended four amongst the abductors, while others escaped”, Oyeyemi State
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.
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