Prophet dupes corps member of $500

Officials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have apprehended a man, who identified himself as Moses Edwin, a prophet in one of the orthodox churches in Lagos, for allegedly stealing $500, belonging to a customer while trying to convert $5,000 to naira.
Edwin, 50, a bureau de change operator, was arrested beside Airport Hotel, Ikeja, along with another member on Friday, three days after allegedly stealing $500 from $5,000 bills presented to them by Adebayo Lookman for conversion to naira. 
Lookman, a member the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Lagos, had, in assisting his mother to change $5,000 to naira, driven to Airport Hotel where he met Edwin. Edwin, in changing the $5,000 in $100 notes, promised an exchange rate of N387 to a dollar.
 He thereafter invited another member of his gang, Daniel Ebhohimen, while confirming the dollars, both men removed $500 before handing over $4,500 back to unsuspecting Bayo in his car. Lookman said: “I was trying to help my mum change the $5,000. I got to Airport Hotel and I met these men.
After negotiating back and forth, they offered me N387 to a dollar.
“They took my details on the grounds that the transaction was going to be online. Edwin requested that I surrender the $5,000 bills for them to confirm. “Reluctantly, I gave them but I was monitoring them and I was counting along with them in my car. “They were mid-way into the counting when another member of the gang distracted me from the driver side of my car.
Thereafter, they handed back the money to me that it was complete and we headed to one of the banks in Opebi.
“We entered the bank. All along they prevented me from counting the money. At the bank, they told me the rate they gave me was no longer possible and that they were backing out but I offered for a renegotiation. “I told them to excuse me and I went into the gent to confirm the money. I counted it and $500 was missing. Before I could come out they had run away. The door attendants told me he saw them rush out of the bank.


“I went to where I met them but I couldn’t see them. It was the third day that I saw Edwin and I invited the police.” Edwin, in his statement to the police, acknowledged the crime.
He stated he never followed the gang to bank, adding that he only ordered his other gang members to finish up the transaction. The prophet added that he was given N10,000 when they came back from the bank. Edwin thereafter assured the police that his gang was ready for amicable settlement by paying back the missing $500.https://newtelegraphonline.com/metro/prophet-dupes-corps-member-500/