Prince Hyacinth, Rex Emadifie Oghene, Odili Ifeayi and Uduak Samuel Williams are all University of Port Harcourt undergraduates and have been arrested for defrauding 15 victims to the tune of $111,500.
Confirming their arrest, the Head, Media and Publicity of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Dele Oyewale said the quartet, were picked up on Thursday, August 20, 2020 from their hideout at Chibiak Avenue, Elenpranwo, Ada George, Port Harcourt.
During the arrest, items recovered from them by the Port Harcourt Zonal office included: one Tecno Spark 4 belonging to Prince Hyacinth; one iPhone 11 Pro Max; two Infinix Hot and one Apple Laptop belonging to Odili Ifeayi; one iPphone 7 and two iPhone 11 belonging to Rex Emadifie Oghene and one iPhone 8+, one Acer Laptop and one HP Laptop belonging Uduak Samuel Williams.
According to preliminary investigations, it was learnt that, the suspects are majorly involved in a romance scam and also act as pickers for an organized ring of fraudsters.
While Prince Hyacinth paraded himself as a Spain-based Marine Engineer to bait his victims, Rex Emadifie Oghene posed as a rig Engineer based in the United State, the two other suspects, Odili Ifeayi and Uduak Samuel Williams presented themselves as Rig/Marine Engineers to defraud their victims.
Oyewale reiterated that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.
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