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Two Canadian sisters, Kiranjot and Tara Matharoo, plus
a Nigerian, Mr. Babatunde Oyebade, have been remanded in prison custody for
blackmailing Nigeria billionaire and oil mogul, Femi Otedola and his daughter,
Florence, known as Dee-jay Cuppy.
They accused Otedola of having an extra
marital affair with a female Nigerian musician, which they threatened to expose
on social media, unless he pays them. They also accused him of giving his
daughter to billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote, as sex toy.
The accused persons were charged to
court after being arrested by policemen attached to the Inspector General of
Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), for blackmailing Otedola and
his daughter, through a gossip website.
IRT investigations revealed that the
accused are owners of Naijagistlive.com, a gossip website which they used in
blackmailing and extorting huge sums of money in foreign currencies from
several top politicians, governors, bankers, businessmen and musicians.
The sisters, alleged to be high-price call girls,
operated from a suite in a popular five-star hotel, located at Victoria Island
area of Lagos. The girls pay the sum of N178, 000 per night. It was also from
this hotel they extorted the sum of $ 300,000 from a top politician from the
North. The girls allegedly threatened to post on social media nude pictures and
videos of the northern politician having sex.
A source said: “The suspects usually contacts their
victims through internet calls and after several stalking and negotiations,
make them pay the agreed amount, using PayPal, an American online payment
system. The sisters and their Nigerian collaborator ran out of luck when they
attempted to blackmail, Otedola and his daughter, DJ Cuppy.
“They confronted Otedola with pictures and videos, alleging
he was having an extra marital affair with a popular Nigeria female musician.
They threatened to expose it on the Internet. They also accused him of giving
out his daughter DJ Cuppy to billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote to have fun
with.”
The allegations infuriated Otedola, who reported the
matter to the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris. Idris instructed IRT
operatives to investigate the matter.
Oyebade, 43, the only male and Nigerian among them,
was first arrested. He admitted to have designed the website naijagistlive.com.
He, however, told police that he was unaware that
the website was used for blackmailing. He explained that he was contacted by
someone he had never met before through his email to design the website.
He explained that payment for the designing of the
website was brought to him through a taxi driver he had never met before.
The taxi driver, who delivered the money to Oyebade
was trailed and arrested by the IRT operatives.
He told IRT that he was instructed to deliver the
money through a phone number given to him by a receptionist at the hotel
where the sisters resides. The operatives swiftly moved into the hotel and
found the receptionist who led them to the sisters.
The sisters allegedly confessed to crime, pleading
for clemency. They also volunteered to shut down the website, vowing not to
engage in such act again.
The accuse persons were brought before Chief
Magistrate A.O. Ojo, on a four count charge, bordering on blackmail, threat to
kidnap and cyber-stalking.
When they were brought before Yaba Chief Magistrate
Court, on a hold-charge, the magistrates, who didn't take their pleas as their
charges were read to them, granted a N500,000 bail to the accuse with two sureties
in like sum. The matter was adjoined to January 25, 2017, for further hearing.
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