Friday, 22 August 2014

EFCC Arrests Fraudster Impersonating Okonjo-Iweala’s Secretary

uck ran out of a suspected fraudster that impersonated Barrister Wilson Amarachi, Secretary to Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as he has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
In a statement made available to journalists,  EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren said the suspect  "John Nze Madu was arrested at Diamond Bank, Ojodu branch, Lagos, where he went to make withdrawals with an ATM card."
"Investigation showed that Madu defrauded Wu Qingzhu, a
Chinese national, of the sum of Five Thousand, Three Hundred and Eighty American Dollars ($5380) when he allegedly posed as Barrister Wilson Amarachi and deceived the Chinese into believing that he had outstanding payments to collect for contracts executed for the Nigerian government."
"This he achieved by presenting the Chinese with fake documents from ranking Nigerian officials. He allegedly used different email addresses, two documents purportedly from Daily Sun Newspaper, an official gazette purportedly signed by the President Goodluck Jonathan and Senate President,

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