Police arrest mother, daughter over alleged N18m romance scam

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre, NPF-NCCC, person arrested a pistillate and her girl implicit their alleged engagement successful a romance scam that reportedly defrauded a Malta-based unfortunate of much than N18 million.

The constabulary disclosed that the arrests followed investigations into allegations bordering connected computer-related fraud, individuality theft, and wealth laundering aft receiving quality from the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU.

In a connection issued by the Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Uwana Imah, the suspects were identified arsenic 39-year-old Urowhe Diana and her 22-year-old daughter, Rokibat Oluwasheyi Imoru.

According to the statement, preliminary investigations revealed that a Lagos nonmigratory identified arsenic Emmanuel Amanfo, who is presently astatine large, allegedly collaborated with Rokibat Oluwasheyi Imoru to unfastened and run aggregate slope accounts utilized successful carrying retired fraudulent transactions.

“One of the victims was identified arsenic a nonmigratory of Malta whose individuality has been withheld,” the connection said.

The constabulary further disclosed that proceeds from the alleged romance scam were transferred done wealth t...