OPERATIVES of the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested five people in connection with different cases of visa fraud and forgery of documents. The Commissioner of Police in charge of the unit, Tunde Ogunsakin, has also raised the alarm over increasing rate of hackers who use official websites to defraud Nigerians, especially job seekers. The duo of John Oseghae and Smart Imafidon were arrested after the British High Commission in Lagos discovered that one of them had submitted a forged income tax clearance certificate. The image maker in charge of SFU, Ngozi Isintume-Agu, while speaking with newsmen on the arrest of the suspects, said “a petition from the regional security office of the United States Consulate in Lagos, dated November 12 2013, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, SFU, CP Tunde Ogunsakin, alleged that, on the same date, the suspect presented a Nigerian passport with a forged UK visa.” She added that “SFU detectives swung into action and Raji was apprehended,” and he allegedly confessed that the visa was given to him by a certain Popoola Oladimeji, who resides in Ibadan for the sum of 500,000. In another development, John Oseghae, a holder of Nigerian passport No AO 3916493, applied for six-month visit visa to UK on September 27, but the visa was denied after the applicant allegedly submitted a forged income tax clearance certificates from the Edo State Board of Internal Revenue Services. The commissioner of police in charge of the unit raised the alarm over activities of hackers, which he described as the latest trend in cyber crime.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:57:44 +0000
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