The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, has uncovered how a jailed fraudster masterminded an internet
scam worth $100 million from prison.
The suspected fraudster is Hope
Olusegun Aroke, a convicted internet scammer who is currently serving 24 years
jail term.
The Lagos Zonal Office of the
commission said on Monday that it uncovered that Aroke a convicted internet
fraudster currently serving a 24 years jail term was still in active
communication with other high valued targets.
The EFCC, in a statement said the
high valued targets were currently being investigated by the Commission for
various offences relating to computer fraud and money laundering.
“Investigation revealed that he
masterminded the commission of internet scam worth over $100, 000, OOO (One
hundred Million Dollars) whilst serving his jail term,” the EFCC said.
In 2016, Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High
Court, sitting in Ikeja convicted and
sentenced Aroke, then a 25-year-old
undergraduate of Kuala Lumpur
Metropolitan University, Malaysia, to 24 years imprisonment for his involvement
in an internet scam that fetched him N25m.
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