The Lagos Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a man for an alleged fraud of $10,000.
In a statement issued on Wednesday via its website, EFCC said the suspect – Adeshina Lukman – obtained money by false pretence and stealing.
According to the anti-graft agency, the suspect was napped on April 14, in the Ipaja/Ayobo area of Lagos, following a complaint received from one Isa Abdulhamid Mohammed.
“Mohammed, in his petition, alleged that one Bashir Haruna Isa, a Bureau De Change operator, sometime in March 2020, approached him with an offer to sell $10,000, while he (Mohammed) would pay the Naira equivalent of the Dollars to him,” the statement partly read.
He further alleged that when Isa requested a Dollar account where the money would be paid into, he was provided with a Wells Fargo Bank account number 4861511475.
Upon receipt of the money paid by one Thomas Joyner in the United States of America into the Dollar account, EFCC said he made a transfer of ₦3.5million being the Naira equivalent of the Dollars into Isa’s account in a new generation bank.
He, however, said that the said sum of $10,000 was reversed from the Wells Fargo account by the bank on the grounds that the transaction was unauthorized and fraudulent.
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