The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 78 individuals suspected of engaging in internet fraud across Nasarawa, Abia, and Kano States.
EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the arrests in a statement released Friday in Abuja. He revealed that operatives apprehended 43 of the suspects in Toto, Nasarawa State, based on actionable intelligence linking them to fraudulent online activities.
Items recovered during the raid include 64 mobile phones, five motorcycles, four laptops, and an iPad.
The operation marks part of a broader crackdown on cybercrime by the anti-graft agency.
Oyewale said that in a related development, the EFCC’s operatives on Thursday arrested 30 suspected internet fraudsters at Ariam and Ubakala in Abia.
He said the items recovered from them included four cars, one iPad, three laptop computers, one sound system, fourty two cell phones and one external hard drive.
”In the same vein, operatives of the Kano Zonal Directorate of the Commission equally arrested five suspected cyber criminals in Kano.
”The suspects were apprehended on Tuesday, during a sting operation at Farm Centre, Kano following actionable intelligence on their alleged involvement in internet fraud and related financial crimes.
”The suspects were arrested alongside their mobile phones,” he said.
According to him, all the suspects will be arraigned in court upon conclusion of investigations,” he said.
