Juliana Francis
The
British High Commissions has reported some Nigerians to the Special Fraud Unit
(SFU), Milverton, Ikoyi, Lagos State, over a visa racketeering.
Spokesperson
for the Unit, DSP
Ngozi Isintume-Agu explained that the suspects were arrested after SFU
received a petition from British High Commission.
The petitioner
reported that one Jude Oseiwe Esebanmhen, 26, with Nigerian Passport No.
A04701778, applied for a six months visit visa on June, 6, 2013, but the visa
application was rejected.
The
British Commission further states that the suspect later applied for a Spanish
visa with a fake UK Entry Clearance Visa on his passport in an attempt to use
deception to obtain the visa, but the visa was checked by a trained forgery officer
and was discovered to be forged.
According
to Isintume-Agu, Esebanmhen who is a graduate of Amnrose Allie University was
arrested and had since allegedly confessed to the crime.
Isintume-Agu
said: “He admitted that he met a travelling agent who promised to assist him to
procure a Spanish visa. The Agent
introduced him to one Mr. Olawole who unknown to him forged the document and
stamped on the passport. He also stated
that the passport was submitted to the Spanish Embassy and he was later called
by the Embassy for collection of his visa and subsequently was arrested.”
The
second suspect is one Charles Abayomi Sanusi, 40, concrete Fabricator from Osun
State.
According
to him, he was not an appointed agent but used to assist prospective travelers
to procure visa to London, Spain, France and other documents like hotel
reservation, insurance certificate, ticket, invitation letters, employment
documents and statement of account.
He
confessed that he procured the fake documents for the principal suspects.
“They
faked documents which include letter of appointment, statement of account, fake
visa, fake arrival and departure stamps of Benin Republic, Cote d’Voire, Togo,
Ghana and U.K,” said Isintume-Agu. “He
further stated that all the fake documents were procured through the assistance
of one Alhaji Oyekanmi who normally meets with him at CMS.
He also stated that he uses his friend’s
office at Shogunle for visa consultancy and had procured for three other
applicants and had never worked in an Embassy in his life. He admitted that he collected the sum of N150, 000.00 for the service.”
Sanusi
stated that he has travelled to U.K. on several occasions but was convicted for
five months for Credit Card fraud and was later deported to Lagos, Nigeria in
2008.
Esebanmhen
admitted that he master minded the whole crime through one Alhaji Oyekanmi who
is still at large.
Investigation
is on-going; effort is being intensified to arrest the fleeing suspect.
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