The Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Port Harcourt Zonal Office have arrested two suspected Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI linked internet fraudsters in the ongoing collaborative investigations between the Nigerian anti-graft commission and the United States Security agents.
According to the statement released by the Commission on Saturday 31st August 2019, the two FBI linked suspected Internet fraudsters were separately arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Owerri, Imo State.
One of them, Ogbonnah Atoukaritou, a leader of a loose syndicate of fraudsters allegedly engaged in Business Email Compromise, BEC, was arrested in Port Harcourt while the other suspect, Alpha Chidi Egbeonu, suspected to be involved in defrauding the US-based victim, Goldberg Segalla LLP and other yet to be identified victims, was arrested in Owerri. .
Items recovered from the suspects include laptops, android phones, land documents, hard disks, Central Processing Unit, warehouse and a recently built house, now attached by the EFCC.
The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
This latest arrest is coming just a day after EFCC announced that it has arrested one of the most wanted FBI linked fraudsters in Ilorin Kwara State, as they continue to trace others who are already on the run since the burst in the United States.
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