A young man profiting from an alleged bitcoin/cryptocurrency scam, Ofure Omonikhoa, may have run into trouble.
He is now in the net of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which says it followed credible intelligence and arrested the man in Lagos.
A statement released by the antigraft agency says Omonkhoa allegedly posed as Moshem Cnich, a Swedish national, to defraud unsuspecting victims of their hard- earned money by claiming that he runs a bitcoin scheme, where people invest money to make huge returns.
”Preliminary investigation also revealed that the suspect engaged in a dating scam and had defrauded two victims in Canada.
Upon his arrest, the suspect confessed to have laundered the proceeds of his fraudulent activities by purchasing a piece of land worth $150,000USD (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) through bitcoin from CASA-Cubana, a project being run by the Cubana Group.
Upon his arrest, the sum of $50,000USD was found in his bitcoin wallet.”the statement read.
The EFCC has continued to arrest Internet fraudsters in different parts of the country.
Nowadays, they often come in large numbers, a development worrying many stakeholdres.
