[size=18pt]Bank fraudsters, car robbers paraded in Ibadan[/size]

By Adebayo Waheed - 20.08.2009

OYO State Police Command, on Wednesday, paraded seven suspects, including five students of the Universities of Port Harcourt and Abuja, a fake soldier, all claiming to be members of a syndicate which specialised in siphoning money from various bank accounts through the internet.

Police Commissioner, Mr. Baba Adisa Bolanta, speaking during the parade at the Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, told newsmen that the suspects were picked up on 6 August, at the Ring Road, Ibadan.

He said after a thorough investigation, the suspects who were in a Peugeot 406, had been in the state capital since 14 July, 2009 and lodged in a hotel in Oluyole area of the state capital.

The suspects were Oberoko Collins (22), Ibey Chimezie (22), Owelipodor Hubert (23), Ikechukwu Okeke (23), Chukwuma Innocent (24), Victor Augustine Mbanugo (29), and Divine Alex Obinna (26). They were said to be into hi-tech cyber crimes which they perpetrated by hacking into banks’ websites through MSR platforms.

According to the police boss, after hacking into the banks’ websites, they transferred funds from bank customers’ accounts into theirs.

He said that Obinna, who claimed to be a soldier just arrived from peacekeeping mission in Sudan and others suspects, had admitted to be internet fraudsters in their confessional statements.

Also paraded were two suspected armed robbers and their godfather, who claimed to be a car dealer in Oke-Ado area of the state capital.

The suspects, Nkem Ube, Dele Ajayi and Fatai Abubakar (a.k.a. Agba), were arrested by the police on 24 June, August, on a tip off that they stole a Volkswagen Toureg Jeep.

They will all rot in hell, that's for sure.