OLAFINRAYE ADEDAMOLA IN AN ALLEGED INTERNET/ADVANCE FEE FRAUD
An
intelligence report dated 24th September, 2013 from Nigerian Financial
Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Abuja addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Special
Fraud Unit (SFU) CP Tunde Ogunsakin alleged that one Olafinraye Adedamola
opened a USD Domicilliary Account No. 273/6980678251/0 with the Demurin, Ketu,
Lagos Branch of Sterling Bank Plc and through suspicious circumstances,
cumulative sum of USD 42,497 Dollars was paid into the account by unsuspecting
victims abroad between 13th August, 2013 and 16th
September, 2013. The suspected illicit
inflows were followed by immediate cash withdrawals by the suspect who appeared
to have no known affiliation with the international depositors.
SFU
operatives swung into action and investigation carried out on the Domicilliary
account revealed that the sum of $18,129.92 Dollars are still left in the
account and a lien was immediately placed on the account.
The
suspect was traced to his house address at No. 7, Agidi Road, Oshogun, Alapere,
Ketu, Lagos but he evaded police arrest and his father, a proprietor of a
moribund driving school feigned ignorance of his son’s whereabout. However, the fleeing suspect was later
apprehended by the Police.
Olafinraye
Adedamola who posed as a lady Janet by name was born in 1989 in Kosofe LGA
Ketu, Lagos. An Artisan who trained in
construction of aluminium but currently a driving instructor in his father’s
moribund driving school located in Ketu, Lagos.
Initially, he denied the allegation claiming that he met one Nigerian at
a Conference in Malaysia who introduced him to the victim and the
victim
requested that he purchase property for him in Nigeria which was the basis for
the disbursement of the money into his account and that he had already bought a
building at Ogba, Ikeja for the sum of N4million and that all the documents are
with him.
On
further interrogation, the suspect confessed to the allegation and admitted
that he is an internet fraudster and that the activities leading to his contact
and ultimate swindling of the US citizen Jac Spradling and his mistress Janet
Kihr of the sum of $42,497 Dollars was done through the internet.
Investigation
is on-going, efforts are in progress through the appropriate channel to contact
the victims of this magnitude internet fraud.
Suspect will be arraigned in court soonest to serve as a deterrent to
other intending internet fraudsters
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