Man Poses as EFCC Official to Swindle Coy
A suspected fraudster, Paschal Ugwu, who operates under the guise of being an official of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission ( EFCC) has been arrested by the police in Lagos.
The suspect was said to have in the past succefully swindled both local and foreign based businessmen.
According to the police, he was arrested after he collected the sum of N805,000 from the managing director of WireMy- Cake company, located at Ijegun area of Isheri- Oshun, over an alleged case of fraud involving the latter's company.
Ugwu was said to have connived with one Sodiq Ibrahim, a dismissed staff of the cake company to plan the operation.
Confirming the arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, said Ugwu was an impostor who poses as a staff of the EFCC and by so doing, had been defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.
He said that the suspect met his waterloo on October 5, 2018 at Ijegun, Isheri- Oshun, Lagos, having defrauded Wire- MyCake company.
According to Edgal, the suspect, two months before his arrest, while pretending to be an EFCC officer, had accused the company's CEO of defrauding GTB.
The suspect was said to have further accused him that it was the proceeds of the fraud that he used in setting up his present company.
Edgal said: "The suspect did not only intimidate the company's CEO, he followed it with accusations, and that at the end of the day, he obtained the sum of N805,000 from the victim.
"Investigation was launched into the case by operatives of the command attached to Area ‘ F’ Ikeja. This led to the arrest of one Sodiq Ibrahim ‘ m’, a dismissed staff of WireMy’s- Cake Company who had connived with the suspect to defraud his former employer."
At the end of investigation, he said the two suspects would be duly charged to court.