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Several incriminating
documents were recovered from the suspect who identified himself as Victor
Ekong and Phillip Aguirre.
Among the
documents is one identifying as the IGP. There were also documents where he
mentioned the names of the Minister of Finance and one Mrs. Asha Faruk. A
central bank cheque, made out in the sum of 200,000 dollars was also found on
him.
Police
spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, said that the arrest of the suspect was made
possible through policemen attached to ‘Area G Police Command,’ who were on
‘Stop and Search’ duty.
Braide said:
“On the January 5, 2014, men of Area G Command were on ‘Stop and Search’ duty.
He was flagged down. During search, police recovered some incriminating
documents from him. The policemen first found some wraps of Indian hemp in his
possession. When they searched further,
they found those documents. One of the documents showed that he used to pose as
the Inspector General of Police.
“He forged
documents to defraud foreigners. He had documents of Federal High Court Justice.
Police discovered that he had collected thousands of dollars from his victims
living overseas.
“He also
used to defraud citizens of this country. He was arrested and when police went
to his house, they also recovered other incriminating documents.
“In some of
the documents, he talks about oil, contracts and money. We recovered central
bank cheque from him. The cheque is 200,000 dollars. This was the cheque he
presented to one of his victims. Judging from the letters police got from him;
it showed that he had already collected 10,000 dollars from some victims.
“Claiming to
be the IGP is one of the antics of fraudsters. They would claim to be and posed
as important personalities in the country in order to convince their victims
that they were genuine.”
The suspect
who said he was from Cross Rivers State, added that he is 34-year-old and a
fish farmer. Sounding his own defence, Victor Ekong initially denied all the
allegations, but later owed up to his crime. “I had somebody I was
communicating with through Facebook. The person is in the United States. In the
course of our communication, he said he had a contract in Nigeria. He was the
person that sent me all these documents. He wanted me to use the documents and
carry out verification here in Nigeria for him. He promised to give me N200,
000 if I assisted him with the verification.
“I didn’t
defraud anybody. There was no time I confessed to the police that I defrauded
anybody. These documents were printed from my email. These documents were all
generated during my interaction with the man via email. The man’s name is
David. These are parts of the documents
he sent to me to use for the verification.”
When the
police produced the white man’s image he was using on Facebook to catch his
victims, he finally carved in and said: “I have a Facebook account. I used this
picture of a white man on my Facebook to get the man to start speaking with me.
The name I have been using on Facebook to speak with him is Phillip Aguirre.
“The
American passport that was recovered from me was gotten from goggle. I just
decided to try my hands on this business. If you call me a fraudster, you
wouldn’t be wrong.”
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