Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), last Friday, arrested five suspected forex speculators at the Ama-Hausa mosque, along Hospital Road, Aba in Abia State.
Also, the Makurdi Zonal Command of the Commission on the same day arrested three brothers for suspected internet fraud.
In Aba, the arrested suspects are: Hassan Umaru; Haruna Umar Badamasi Abdullahi , Auwal Muhammed and Kasimu Muhammed.
The suspects were in possession of different currencies in varied sums at the point of arrest.
The recovered currencies are: 23,000 Won (Korean currency), 52 (Yuan Chinese currency), $6, 500 Nippon Ginko, 40 notes of Dalawampung piso( Philippines Currency) 20 Gambian Dalasis, 20 Swaziland currency and N382,000.
Other recovered items from them are, seven mobile phones, one power bank, one air pod, and one ATM card.
They were arrested by operatives of the Command, following weeks of surveillance and credible intelligence.
In the case of Makurdi arrest, they were arrested along New Garage, Wadata in Makurdi.
The suspects, Abubakar Sadiq Adejoh, Mohammed Habib Adejoh and Solomon Adejoh allegedly specialise in diverting customers’ funds from their accounts to a Point of Sale, POS, terminal for withdrawal.
Items recovered from them include a car, six mobile phones, one laptop and cash totaling N3,562,750.00.
The Commission assured that the arrested suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.
