Five students of the Lead
City University, Ibadan were today paraded over their alleged involvement in
Internet fraud.
The five who among twenty
other suspects paraded for different criminal activities were of the Mass
Communication department of the university.
They were arrested at a
hotel room while perfecting another fraud. The leader of the gang,
Nurudeen Oyeniyi, 23 years is a three hundred level student who confessed that
he had personally made over $27,000 dollars in the last one year he started the
fraud business the last of which was a $10,000 dollars hit from a female victim
from the United States of America.
While addressing the
press, Joseph Mbu disclosed that the police internet fraud unit found that on
the laptop confiscated from the suspects that the gang were on another fraud
adventure.
Also recovered from the gang was a Range Rover
Jeep which Nurudeen claimed to have bought to the tune of N6.2million naira
from the proceeds of cyber-crime.
Also paraded were a male
househelp who allegedly stole Jewelry worth 25million naira but sold it to a
Bureau-de-change staff at N9million.
Others are one suspected
robber still living with gun-shot wounds and another dead who participated in a
Bank robbery which happened at Iseyin yesterday during which two traffic
wardens were shot dead.
Items recovered from them
included rounds of ammunition, Ak47 riffles, and charms among other lethal
weapons
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