Nigeria: Police Swoop On Visa Racketeers, Arrest Suspect With 120 Passports

14 May 2010

Sometime in August 2005, a combined team of both policemen and operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), launched an onslaught on the notorious Oluwole Market located in the commercial nerve centre of Lagos State. Then it was a notorious enclave for criminals, who specialized in forgeries and sophisticated crimes such as international passport racketeering, credit card fraud, drug cartel, fake certificates, currency and visa forgeries; among others.

At the end of the exercise, over 20 persons were arrested and fake items such as, cheque books and traveller's cheques belonging to different financial institutions, international passports of different countries, travelling documents, certificates of various higher institutions, various official stamps of government parastatals, corporate bodies, federal ministries, banks among others were recovered from various parts of the Market.

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