EFCC Sets To Arraign Suspects Arrested At Obasanjo's Hotel

 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign the suspected internet fruadsters arrested at a hotel within the former President Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL.

The operatives of the anti-graft agency had on Sunday raided the premises of the OOPL and arrested 93 suspects during a party for alleged involvement in internet fraud.

EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, in a statement, said the suspects will be arraigned in batches upon profiling them, as many of them had already confessed to their involvement in internet fraud.

Oyewale explained that initially, a total of 23 out of the arrested 93 suspects will be arraigned before the Federal High Court, Ikoyi in Lagos.

Oyewale added that almost all of the arrested suspects had been indicted for alleged offences bordering on impersonation, identity fraud, and internet fraud in the ongoing investigation.

According to him, the pool party in a hotel within the OOPL premises, where the suspects were arrested was being used as cover for their crimes.

Oyewale, however, said , stressing that the former president’s facility was not the target, but the suspects.