The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has returned a sum of N36,186,012 to the proprietress of
Jephtah International School, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Mrs. Ifeoma
Chukwuogo, as money recovered from three suspected fraudsters, who allegedly
diverted the school’s money for their private use.
The suspects are Cyril Idakwoji, an
employee of a new generation bank, who was the account officer of the school;
Boma Chisom, who posed as the Customer
Relations Officer of the bank and Aderemi Adebayo Moses, who prints fake
documents.
Port Harcourt Zonal Head of Operations
of the EFCC, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, while Presenting the money to the proprietor, disclosed
that apart from the cash recovery, the commission, in the course of
investigation, also recovered other suspected proceeds of crime, including a
three-bedroom and two, two-bedroom bungalows.
He commended the bank for promptly
reporting the case.
The case was reported on September 7,
after the school’s cheques could not be honored for days.
Salihu said that at the beginning of
every new term, Idakwoji would visit the school to collect fees paid in cash
and cheque by parents, and issue deposit slips to the school, while investigations
showed that he only lodged the cheques but diverted the cash collected for his
personal use.
Idakwoji also allegedly issued doctored statements of account to the
school in a bid to cover up his nefarious actions.
Salihu added that another accomplice
of Idakwoji, Moses, printed fake letterheads of another organization, where he
is also the account officer and was using their money to pay Jephtah
International School’s workers salaries.
Chukwuogo, while responding thanked
the EFCC for its swift response and called on Nigerians to give more support to
the commission.
Also, the EFCC has arrested eight
suspected Internet fraudsters, which include Samson Olujobi, 28 (a.k.a Mau
Rice, Melinda Mcginnis); Abraham Sunday, 32 ( a.k.a. Raymond Dodson); Gabriel
Ayo, 25 ( a.k.a. Robert McIntosh, Donald Great); Omotayo Raphael, 25 (a.k.a.
Michael Black); Semiu Sunday Olawale, 23 (a.k.a. J. Cabtree); Dafe Onosigho, 27
(a.k.a. Johna Kurz); Ewiolo Elvis, 32 (a.k.a. Morgan Moore), and Usiaka Louis,
22 (a.k.a. Anthony Parker, David Smart, Alfred Norman), were arrested around
the Egbeda and Agege areas of Lagos State on August 27, 2017 following
intelligence report on their alleged involvement in internet crimes.
The suspects were said to have
defrauded their victims of huge sums of money in different currencies posing as
Americans in an online dating scam.
Items recovered from the suspects
during the raid include six laptop computers, five mobile phones (including two
iPhones), one Internet modem and four exotic cars (Toyota Venza, Toyota
Corolla, Hyundai and Honda Crosstour).
The suspects will soon be charged to
court after investigations are concluded, EFCC said.
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