The FCT Police Command has arrested a serial fraudster who goes by the name Dami but whose real name is Obiora Emmanuel Ifeanyi.
According to Josephine Adeh, the spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Ifeanyi was discovered using a bogus alert to pay for goods that were purchased.
She claims that in June 2022, the General Manager of Springfield Aguo Limited filed a complaint alleging that a suspect going by the name of Dami approached the company asking for the purchase of 1,000 bags of fertilizer for N24,300,000. The suspect claimed to be a representative of a fictitious company called Gee Global Nigeria Limited.
The statement read, “All business agreements were fulfilled except that the payment made to the company’s account and initially confirmed via a bank alert was later discovered to be fake.
“The Suspect’s Tactics is to have 3 trans-loading locations ensuring the first pick-up team does not know the final location and the final pick-up team does not know the source of the goods. Having perfectly executed their criminal enterprise, the suspect severed all channels of communication and moved on to yet another unsuspecting member of the public.
She further said that consequent upon the above, investigative and Intelligence assets attached to the Command Monitoring and Mentoring Unit were detailed on the case under the personal supervision of the Commissioner of Police FCT Command, CP Babaji Sunday.
“The news of other criminal activities of this syndicate of miscreants soon started emanating from various investigative quarters across the Command, while investigation and monitoring continues.
“The painstaking investigation soon caught up with yet another plot of these suspected fraudsters who in their regular habit approached one Hero Honda Bike company a sister company to the earlier defrauded Springfield Aguo Limited, for the purchase of Forty Pieces of Motorcycle. The Team, having a clear understanding of the pattern of operation of these miscreants followed the trend of the crime which led to the arrest of the kingpin.
“Preliminary investigation reveals “Dami’s” true identity to be Obiora Emmanuel Ifeanyi, a 43 years old Kaduna based suspected fraudster and kingpin of a suspected fraudulent syndicate who has masterminded and executed the defrauding of several business enterprises and persons to an estimated tone of Five Hundred Million Naira.
She reiterated that the effort has been intensified to arrest fleeing members of the syndicate, while the suspect will be arraigned in court upon the conclusion of the investigation.
