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Alex Enumah, Adedayo Akinwale and Kingsley Nweze in Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to commence manhunt for the home-based Nigerians indicted by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday for a variety of scams and online fraud cases in the US.
The fraudsters, majority based in Nigeria, were involved in a series of coordinated internet scam running into billions of dollars fraudulently obtained from victims in the United States and other parts of the world.
Already, the masterminds, Valentine Iro, 31, and Chukwudi Christogunus Igbokwe, 38, both Nigerian citizens, have been arrested by the FBI in the US.
Sources told THISDAY last night that following the release of the list of 78 Nigerians involved in the scam by the FBI, the EFCC Chairman Ibrahim Magu and a…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
